Relationships
Age at First Marriage by Country 2025
Age at First Marriage (Total)
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5 Countries that get Married the Earliest
Country | Age at First Marriage (Total)↑ | Age at First Marriage (men) | Age at First Marriage (women) | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 | Niger | 21.0 | 22.8 | 19.2 |
 | Liberia | 21.0 | 23.0 | 19.0 |
 | Tanzania | 21.4 | 23.8 | 19.0 |
 | Sao Tome and Principe | 21.6 | 24.1 | 19.1 |
 | Nepal | 21.9 | 23.6 | 20.1 |
 | Laos | 21.9 | 23.3 | 20.5 |
 | Kiribati | 21.9 | 23.6 | 20.1 |
 | Nigeria | 22.0 | 24.8 | 19.2 |
 | Central African Republic | 22.0 | 23.7 | 20.3 |
 | Chad | 22.2 | 25.3 | 19.1 |
 | Cambodia | 22.2 | 23.4 | 21.0 |
 | Uganda | 22.3 | 24.4 | 20.2 |
 | Zimbabwe | 22.3 | 24.6 | 19.9 |
 | Nauru | 22.4 | 23.2 | 21.6 |
 | Nicaragua | 22.5 | 24.4 | 20.6 |
 | Mali | 22.6 | 26.0 | 19.1 |
 | Vanuatu | 22.6 | 24.4 | 20.8 |
 | Rwanda | 22.7 | 24.7 | 20.6 |
 | Honduras | 22.7 | 24.1 | 21.2 |
 | Cameroon | 22.8 | 26.0 | 19.6 |
 | Timor-Leste | 22.8 | 25.0 | 20.6 |
 | Myanmar | 22.9 | 24.6 | 21.1 |
 | Maldives | 22.9 | 24.1 | 21.6 |
 | Burundi | 23.0 | 24.6 | 21.3 |
 | Comoros | 23.0 | 25.6 | 20.4 |
 | Solomon Islands | 23.0 | 25.6 | 20.3 |
 | Ivory Coast | 23.1 | 26.7 | 19.5 |
 | Burkina Faso | 23.1 | 26.3 | 19.9 |
 | Malawi | 23.1 | 25.3 | 20.9 |
 | Benin | 23.1 | 24.4 | 19.9 |
 | Indonesia | 23.2 | 25.4 | 21.0 |
 | Zambia | 23.2 | 25.7 | 20.7 |
 | Papua New Guinea | 23.2 | 25.0 | 21.4 |
 | Mauritania | 23.2 | 27.1 | 19.2 |
 | Lesotho | 23.2 | 25.5 | 20.9 |
 | Equatorial Guinea | 23.3 | 26.1 | 20.5 |
 | Cuba | 23.4 | 25.4 | 21.3 |
 | Panama | 23.5 | 25.3 | 21.6 |
 | Gabon | 23.5 | 25.5 | 21.4 |
 | Guyana | 23.5 | 25.4 | 21.5 |
 | DR Congo | 23.6 | 26.2 | 21.0 |
 | Somalia | 23.6 | 26.5 | 20.6 |
 | Ghana | 23.7 | 25.7 | 21.7 |
 | Guatemala | 23.9 | 25.0 | 22.7 |
 | Guinea | 23.9 | 28.0 | 19.8 |
 | Afghanistan | 24.0 | 25.6 | 22.4 |
 | South Sudan | 24.0 | 27.6 | 20.4 |
 | Turkmenistan | 24.0 | 24.6 | 23.3 |
 | El Salvador | 24.0 | 25.5 | 22.5 |
 | Republic of the Congo | 24.1 | 26.1 | 22.0 |
 | Bhutan | 24.1 | 25.4 | 22.8 |
 | Madagascar | 24.2 | 25.5 | 22.8 |
 | Tajikistan | 24.2 | 26.2 | 22.1 |
 | Tonga | 24.3 | 25.0 | 23.6 |
 | Venezuela | 24.4 | 25.8 | 22.9 |
 | Colombia | 24.5 | 26.2 | 22.7 |
 | Guinea-Bissau | 24.5 | 28.1 | 20.9 |
 | Saint Vincent and the Grenadines | 24.5 | 27.8 | 21.2 |
 | Ethiopia | 24.6 | 26.8 | 22.3 |
 | Yemen | 24.6 | 26.1 | 23.0 |
 | Uzbekistan | 24.7 | 26.6 | 22.7 |
 | Paraguay | 24.8 | 26.8 | 22.7 |
 | Eritrea | 24.9 | 29.1 | 20.6 |
 | Togo | 25.0 | 27.6 | 22.3 |
 | Angola | 25.1 | 26.7 | 23.4 |
 | Mozambique | 25.2 | 27.6 | 22.8 |
 | Sri Lanka | 25.3 | 27.2 | 23.4 |
 | Sudan | 25.4 | 28.9 | 21.9 |
 | Bolivia | 25.4 | 26.6 | 24.1 |
 | Kyrgyzstan | 25.4 | 27.2 | 23.6 |
 | Peru | 25.5 | 27.5 | 23.5 |
 | Tuvalu | 25.8 | 28.2 | 23.3 |
 | Bangladesh | 26.0 | 27.2 | 24.8 |
 | Iran | 26.0 | 28.0 | 24.0 |
 | United Arab Emirates | 26.1 | 26.8 | 25.3 |
 | Azerbaijan | 26.1 | 28.1 | 24.0 |
 | Brunei | 26.2 | 27.3 | 25.1 |
 | Kazakhstan | 26.3 | 27.6 | 25.0 |
 | Marshall Islands | 26.4 | 27.1 | 25.6 |
 | Ecuador | 26.7 | 28.3 | 25.1 |
 | Gambia | 26.7 | 30.7 | 22.7 |
 | Philippines | 26.8 | 28.2 | 25.4 |
 | Iraq | 26.8 | 28.2 | 25.3 |
 | Haiti | 26.8 | 28.7 | 24.9 |
 | Armenia | 26.8 | 30.5 | 27.1 |
 | Pakistan | 27.0 | 28.4 | 25.6 |
 | Antigua and Barbuda | 27.0 | 29.0 | 25.0 |
 | China | 27.2 | 28.8 | 25.6 |
 | Vietnam | 27.2 | 29.3 | 25.1 |
 | Belarus | 27.2 | 28.3 | 26.1 |
 | North Korea | 27.3 | 29.0 | 25.5 |
 | Mongolia | 27.5 | 29.0 | 26.0 |
 | Moldova | 27.5 | 28.9 | 26.0 |
 | Fiji | 27.5 | 29.3 | 25.7 |
 | Russia | 27.6 | 29.2 | 26.0 |
 | Kenya | 27.6 | 29.6 | 25.6 |
 | Saudi Arabia | 27.6 | 29.3 | 25.9 |
 | Senegal | 27.6 | 31.4 | 23.8 |
 | Egypt | 28.0 | 31.0 | 25.0 |
 | Turkey | 28.0 | 29.0 | 27.0 |
 | Bosnia and Herzegovina | 28.2 | 29.5 | 26.8 |
 | North Macedonia | 28.3 | 29.6 | 26.9 |
 | Samoa | 28.4 | 30.7 | 26.1 |
 | Morocco | 28.5 | 31.3 | 25.7 |
 | Eswatini | 28.5 | 30.5 | 26.5 |
 | India | 28.6 | 30.0 | 27.2 |
 | Botswana | 28.7 | 30.9 | 26.4 |
 | Palestine | 28.8 | 31.4 | 26.2 |
 | Bahamas | 28.8 | 30.6 | 27.0 |
 | Jordan | 29.0 | 31.3 | 26.6 |
 | Syria | 29.1 | 31.8 | 26.3 |
 | Thailand | 29.2 | 30.8 | 27.6 |
 | Kuwait | 29.3 | 29.9 | 28.7 |
 | Albania | 29.4 | 30.9 | 27.8 |
 | Djibouti | 29.4 | 31.3 | 27.4 |
 | Belize | 29.4 | 30.1 | 28.6 |
 | Lithuania | 29.5 | 30.7 | 28.3 |
 | Malta | 29.5 | 30.5 | 28.5 |
 | Micronesia | 29.5 | 30.5 | 28.5 |
 | Montenegro | 29.6 | 31.1 | 28.0 |
 | Singapore | 29.8 | 30.1 | 29.5 |
 | United Kingdom | 30.0 | 31.0 | 29.0 |
 | Romania | 30.0 | 31.6 | 28.3 |
 | Serbia | 30.0 | 31.4 | 28.6 |
 | Ukraine | 30.2 | 31.2 | 29.2 |
 | Malaysia | 30.2 | 31.0 | 29.4 |
 | Croatia | 30.2 | 31.5 | 28.9 |
 | Cyprus | 30.2 | 30.7 | 29.6 |
 | Japan | 30.4 | 31.1 | 29.7 |
 | Israel | 30.4 | 31.6 | 29.2 |
 | Qatar | 30.4 | 31.3 | 29.4 |
 | Oman | 30.5 | 32.1 | 28.9 |
 | Namibia | 30.5 | 31.7 | 29.2 |
 | Trinidad and Tobago | 30.5 | 31.8 | 29.2 |
 | Canada | 30.6 | 30.8 | 30.4 |
 | Tunisia | 30.6 | 32.9 | 28.2 |
 | Bulgaria | 30.6 | 32.0 | 29.1 |
 | Slovakia | 30.7 | 31.9 | 29.4 |
 | Georgia | 30.7 | 31.9 | 29.4 |
 | Poland | 30.8 | 32.2 | 29.4 |
 | Palau | 30.8 | 31.9 | 29.6 |
 | Czechia | 31.0 | 32.2 | 29.8 |
 | Libya | 31.0 | 32.0 | 30.0 |
 | New Zealand | 31.0 | 31.6 | 30.4 |
 | Suriname | 31.1 | 32.8 | 29.3 |
 | Belgium | 31.2 | 32.3 | 30.0 |
 | United States | 31.4 | 32.0 | 30.8 |
 | Hong Kong | 31.4 | 32.2 | 30.6 |
 | Bahrain | 31.4 | 33.6 | 29.2 |
 | Estonia | 31.4 | 32.3 | 30.4 |
 | Greece | 31.5 | 32.9 | 30.1 |
 | Hungary | 31.5 | 32.8 | 30.1 |
 | Switzerland | 31.6 | 32.8 | 30.4 |
 | Taiwan | 31.7 | 32.6 | 30.7 |
 | Latvia | 31.7 | 32.7 | 30.6 |
 | Saint Kitts and Nevis | 31.7 | 32.1 | 31.3 |
 | Slovenia | 31.8 | 32.8 | 30.7 |
 | Monaco | 31.9 | 33.4 | 30.4 |
 | Mexico | 32.0 | 33.4 | 30.6 |
 | Algeria | 32.0 | 33.2 | 30.8 |
 | Australia | 32.0 | 33.2 | 30.8 |
 | Austria | 32.0 | 33.2 | 30.8 |
 | San Marino | 32.1 | 33.5 | 30.7 |
 | Lebanon | 32.4 | 34.4 | 30.4 |
 | Costa Rica | 32.5 | 34.0 | 31.0 |
 | Liechtenstein | 32.6 | 33.9 | 31.2 |
 | South Korea | 32.7 | 33.9 | 31.6 |
 | South Africa | 33.0 | 35.0 | 31.0 |
 | Luxembourg | 33.1 | 34.3 | 31.8 |
 | Portugal | 33.2 | 33.9 | 32.4 |
 | Seychelles | 33.2 | 35.3 | 31.1 |
 | France | 33.6 | 34.4 | 32.8 |
 | Cape Verde | 33.6 | 35.2 | 32.0 |
 | Grenada | 33.6 | 35.2 | 32.0 |
 | Iceland | 33.7 | 34.6 | 32.7 |
 | Barbados | 34.1 | 35.3 | 32.9 |
 | Finland | 34.2 | 35.2 | 33.2 |
 | Italy | 34.4 | 35.2 | 33.6 |
 | Mauritius | 34.4 | 36.4 | 32.4 |
 | Jamaica | 34.6 | 35.4 | 33.8 |
 | Denmark | 34.8 | 36.2 | 33.4 |
 | Germany | 35.0 | 35.6 | 34.4 |
 | Sweden | 35.1 | 36.3 | 33.9 |
 | Saint Lucia | 35.5 | 36.1 | 34.9 |
 | Uruguay | 36.0 | 37.2 | 34.8 |
 | Ireland | 36.4 | 37.8 | 35.0 |
 | Brazil | 36.8 | 38.0 | 35.6 |
 | Norway | 37.6 | 38.4 | 36.8 |
 | Argentina | 37.8 | 38.8 | 36.8 |
 | Netherlands | 38.4 | 39.2 | 37.6 |
 | Chile | 38.6 | 39.4 | 37.8 |
 | Spain | 39.8 | 40.8 | 38.8 |
- At present, most (if not all) countries track marriage data using two genders, male and female. Data for nonbinary newlyweds have likely been merged by the original sources with that of the two binary genders.
- Data are pulled from a wide range of years. While most countries’ data were parsed in 2000 or later, a handful of data sets come from earlier years, with 1980 being the earliest. As such, country-to-country comparisons may not reflect generational shifts in average marriage ages.
People are marrying later in life around the world, but the average age at first marriage by country ranges from as young as 18.1 to as old as 38.8. The average age at first marriage varies due to cultural norms and traditions, career and education goals, readiness to start a family, shifting demographics, and more.
Age at First Marriage by Country
The youngest average age at first marriage by country is found in Colombia – a country in South America. With couples usually marrying around age 18 (18.1) here, it stands apart from many other nations around the world where the average marriage age is creeping higher.
In many nations, a trend can be observed of people waiting longer until they marry. In such countries as Sweden, Switzerland, Germany, Spain, Portugal, Luxembourg, Ireland, and Estonia, the average marriage age is over 30.
In countries where the average age of the first marriage isn’t yet 30, it seems to be quickly approaching that number. In Russia, North Macedonia, Serbia, Romania, Croatia, and Montenegro, the age at first marriage is between 26 and 29.
With people marrying later in life overall, the rate of midlife marriage (first marriage), in which people marry between ages 40 and 59, quadrupled between 1990 and 2019 in the United States alone.
