WORLD Child Marriage Laws 2023

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

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WLD_2023_WCML_v01_M

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WORLD Policy Analysis Center

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Feb 19, 2026

Last modified

Feb 19, 2026

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circumstances 17-year-old girls can be married (protect_girl_17)

Data file: world-cml-2023-v1

Overview

Valid: 188

Minimum: 1

Maximum: 5

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 76

End: 76

Width: 1

Format: Numeric

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Value	Category	Cases
1	no restrictions	15	8%
2	can marry with parental consent and/or under religious or cu	67	35.6%
3	only permitted with court approval and/or pregnancy	48	25.5%
5	marriage legally prohibited	58	30.9%
Sysmiss		5

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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