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

Metadata

DDI/XML JSON

Created on

Feb 19, 2026

Last modified

Feb 19, 2026

min age of marriage with parental consent for boys (minage_mal_pc)

Data file: world-cml-2023-v1

Overview

Valid: 192

Minimum: 1

Maximum: 5

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 81

End: 81

Width: 1

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Categories

Value	Category
1	13 years old or younger
2	14 to 15 years old
3	16 to 17 years old
5	18 years old or older
9	set by religious or customary law
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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