WORLD Child Marriage Laws 2023

Afghanistan, Albania, Algeria...and 190 more, 2023

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Reference ID

WLD_2023_WCML_v01_M

Producer(s)

WORLD Policy Analysis Center

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Created on

Feb 19, 2026

Last modified

Feb 19, 2026

under customary & religious law exception to min age of marriage (except_crlaw)

Data file: world-cml-2023-v1

Overview

Valid: 189

Minimum: 1

Maximum: 5

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 77

End: 77

Width: 1

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Categories

Value	Category
1	girls can be married under age 18 in all circumstances
2	there is a religious and/or customary law exception to the m
5	there is no religious or customary law exception to the mini
Sysmiss

Warning: these figures indicate the number of cases found in the data file. They cannot be interpreted as summary statistics of the population of interest.

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