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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with parental consent exception to min age of marriage (except_pc)

Data file: world-cml-2023-v1

Overview

Valid: 193

Minimum: 1

Maximum: 5

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 78

End: 78

Width: 1

Format: Numeric

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Value	Category	Cases
1	girls can be married under age 18 in all circumstances	15	7.8%
2	there is a parental consent exception to the minimum age of	48	24.9%
3	there is a parental consent exception with additional requir	35	18.1%
5	there is no parental consent exception to the minimum age of	95	49.2%

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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