The CIA World Factbook Edition 2025, the latest with this field People and Society

Child marriage In 4 editions of 36.

Child marriage was published in 4 editions of the CIA World Factbook, from 2022 to 2025. The 2025 edition carries it in 116 entries, in its People and Society section. Every entry is shown as that edition published it.

entries in the 2025 edition
116
the first edition with it
2022
the latest edition with it
2025

Published as “Child marriage” (2022 to 2025).

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World

1 entry

World

women married by age 15:
4.3% (2023)
women married by age 18:
18.7% (2023)
men married by age 18:
2.7% (2022)

Africa

43 entries

Algeria

women married by age 15:
0% (2019)
women married by age 18:
3.8% (2019)

Angola

women married by age 15:
7.9% (2016)
women married by age 18:
30.3% (2016)
men married by age 18:
6% (2016)

Benin

women married by age 15:
5.9% (2022)
women married by age 18:
27.5% (2022)
men married by age 18:
4.6% (2022)

Burkina Faso

women married by age 15:
8.9% (2015)
women married by age 18:
51.3% (2015)
men married by age 18:
1.6% (2015)

Burundi

women married by age 15:
2.8% (2017)
women married by age 18:
19% (2017)
men married by age 18:
1.4% (2017)

Cabo Verde

women married by age 15:
1.8% (2018)
women married by age 18:
8.4% (2018)
men married by age 18:
1.5% (2018)

Cameroon

women married by age 15:
10.7% (2018)
women married by age 18:
29.8% (2018)
men married by age 18:
2.9% (2018)

Central African Republic

women married by age 15:
25.8% (2019)
women married by age 18:
61% (2019)
men married by age 18:
17.1% (2019)

Chad

women married by age 15:
24.2% (2019)
women married by age 18:
60.6% (2019)
men married by age 18:
8.1% (2019)

Comoros

women married by age 15:
4.9% (2022)
women married by age 18:
20.7% (2022)
men married by age 18:
6.9% (2022)

Congo, Democratic Republic of the now Democratic Republic of the Congo

women married by age 15:
8.4% (2018)
women married by age 18:
29.1% (2018)
men married by age 18:
5.6% (2018)

Congo, Republic of the now Republic of the Congo

women married by age 15:
6.9% (2015)
women married by age 18:
27.3% (2015)
men married by age 18:
5.6% (2018 est.)

Cote d'Ivoire

women married by age 15:
7.4% (2021)
women married by age 18:
25.8% (2021)
men married by age 18:
1.9% (2021)

Djibouti

women married by age 15:
1.4% (2019)
women married by age 18:
6.5% (2019)

Egypt

women married by age 15:
1.8% (2021)
women married by age 18:
15.8% (2021)

Eswatini

women married by age 15:
0.1% (2022)
women married by age 18:
1.9% (2022)
men married by age 18:
0% (2022)

Ethiopia

women married by age 15:
14.1% (2016)
women married by age 18:
40.3% (2016)
men married by age 18:
5% (2016)

Gabon

women married by age 15:
2.9% (2021)
women married by age 18:
13.3% (2021)
men married by age 18:
4.8% (2021)

Gambia, The now The Gambia

women married by age 15:
5.6% (2020)
women married by age 18:
23.1% (2020)
men married by age 18:
0.2% (2020)

Ghana

women married by age 15:
3.3% (2022)
women married by age 18:
16.1% (2022)
men married by age 18:
2.4% (2022)

Guinea

women married by age 15:
17% (2018)
women married by age 18:
46.5% (2018)
men married by age 18:
1.9% (2018)

Guinea-Bissau

women married by age 15:
8.1% (2019)
women married by age 18:
25.7% (2019)
men married by age 18:
2.2% (2019)

Kenya

women married by age 15:
2.2% (2022)
women married by age 18:
12.5% (2022)
men married by age 18:
1.8% (2022)

Lesotho

women married by age 15:
1% (2018)
women married by age 18:
16.4% (2018)
men married by age 18:
1.9% (2018)

Liberia

women married by age 15:
5.8% (2020)
women married by age 18:
24.9% (2020)
men married by age 18:
8.4% (2020)

Madagascar

women married by age 15:
12.7% (2021)
women married by age 18:
38.8% (2021)
men married by age 18:
11.2% (2021)

Malawi

women married by age 15:
7.5% (2020)
women married by age 18:
37.7% (2020)
men married by age 18:
7% (2020)

Mali

women married by age 15:
15.9% (2018)
women married by age 18:
53.7% (2018)
men married by age 18:
2.1% (2018)

Mauritania

women married by age 15:
15.5% (2021)
women married by age 18:
36.6% (2021)
men married by age 18:
1.2% (2021)

Morocco

women married by age 15:
0.5% (2018)
women married by age 18:
13.7% (2018)

Mozambique

women married by age 15:
16.8% (2015)
women married by age 18:
52.9% (2015)
men married by age 18:
9.7% (2015)

Nigeria

women married by age 15:
12.3% (2021)
women married by age 18:
30.3% (2021)
men married by age 18:
1.6% (2021)

note: due to prolonged insecurity concerns, some parts of states, including Borno state, were not sampled

Rwanda

women married by age 15:
0.3% (2020)
women married by age 18:
5.5% (2020)
men married by age 18:
0.4% (2020)

Sao Tome and Principe

women married by age 15:
5.4% (2019)
women married by age 18:
28% (2019)
men married by age 18:
3.1% (2019)

Senegal

women married by age 15:
8.8% (2019)
women married by age 18:
30.5% (2019)
men married by age 18:
0.7% (2019)

Sierra Leone

women married by age 15:
8.6% (2019)
women married by age 18:
29.6% (2019)
men married by age 18:
4.1% (2019)

South Africa

women married by age 15:
0.9% (2016)
women married by age 18:
3.6% (2016)
men married by age 18:
0.6% (2016)

Tanzania

women married by age 15:
5.2% (2022)
women married by age 18:
29.1% (2022)
men married by age 18:
3.5% (2022)

Togo

women married by age 15:
6.4% (2017)
women married by age 18:
24.8% (2017)
men married by age 18:
2.6% (2017)

Tunisia

women married by age 15:
0% (2018)
women married by age 18:
1.5% (2018)
men married by age 18:
0% (2018)

Uganda

women married by age 15:
7.3% (2016)
women married by age 18:
34% (2016)
men married by age 18:
5.5% (2016)

Zambia

women married by age 15:
5.2% (2018)
women married by age 18:
29% (2018)
men married by age 18:
2.8% (2018)

Zimbabwe

women married by age 15:
5.4% (2019)
women married by age 18:
33.7% (2019)
men married by age 18:
1.9% (2019)

Asia

18 entries

Afghanistan

women married by age 15:
9.6% (2023)
women married by age 18:
28.7% (2023)
men married by age 18:
7.3% (2015)

Armenia

women married by age 15:
0% (2016)
women married by age 18:
5.3% (2016)
men married by age 18:
0.4% (2016)

Bangladesh

women married by age 15:
15.5% (2019)
women married by age 18:
51.4% (2019)

China

women married by age 15:
0.1% (2020)
women married by age 18:
2.8% (2020)
men married by age 18:
0.7% (2020)

Georgia

women married by age 15:
0.3% (2018)
women married by age 18:
13.9% (2018)
men married by age 18:
0.5% (2018)

India

women married by age 15:
4.8% (2021)
women married by age 18:
23.3% (2021)
men married by age 18:
2.6% (2021)

Kazakhstan

women married by age 15:
0.2% (2015)
women married by age 18:
7% (2015)

Korea, North now North Korea

women married by age 15:
0% (2017)
women married by age 18:
0.1% (2017)
men married by age 18:
0% (2017)

Kyrgyzstan

women married by age 15:
0.3% (2018)
women married by age 18:
12.9% (2018)

Maldives

women married by age 15:
0% (2017)
women married by age 18:
2.2% (2017)
men married by age 18:
2.2% (2017)

Mongolia

women married by age 15:
0.9% (2018)
women married by age 18:
12% (2018)
men married by age 18:
2.1% (2018)

Nepal

women married by age 15:
5.8% (2022)
women married by age 18:
34.9% (2022)
men married by age 18:
7% (2022)

Pakistan

women married by age 15:
3.6% (2018)
women married by age 18:
18.3% (2018)
men married by age 18:
4.7% (2018)

Russia

women married by age 15:
0.3% (2017)
women married by age 18:
6.2% (2017)

Sri Lanka

women married by age 15:
0.9% (2016)
women married by age 18:
9.8% (2016)

Tajikistan

women married by age 15:
0.1% (2017)
women married by age 18:
8.7% (2017)

Turkmenistan

women married by age 15:
0.2% (2019)
women married by age 18:
6.1% (2019)

Uzbekistan

women married by age 15:
0.2% (2022)
women married by age 18:
3.4% (2022)

Central America and the Caribbean

10 entries

Belize

women married by age 15:
6.3% (2016)
women married by age 18:
33.5% (2016)
men married by age 18:
22.2% (2016)

Costa Rica

women married by age 15:
2% (2018)
women married by age 18:
17.1% (2018)

Cuba

women married by age 15:
4.8% (2019)
women married by age 18:
29.4% (2019)
men married by age 18:
5.9% (2019)

Dominican Republic

women married by age 15:
9.4% (2019)
women married by age 18:
31.5% (2019)

El Salvador

women married by age 15:
4.3% (2021)
women married by age 18:
19.7% (2021)

Guatemala

women married by age 15:
6.2% (2015)
women married by age 18:
29.5% (2015)
men married by age 18:
9.6% (2015)

Haiti

women married by age 15:
2.1% (2017)
women married by age 18:
14.9% (2017)
men married by age 18:
1.6% (2017)

Honduras

women married by age 15:
9.2% (2019)
women married by age 18:
34% (2019)
men married by age 18:
10% (2019)

Trinidad and Tobago

women married by age 15:
0.7% (2022)
women married by age 18:
4.2% (2022)

Turks and Caicos Islands

women married by age 15:
0% (2020)
women married by age 18:
23.3% (2020)
men married by age 18:
5.1% (2020)

Europe

12 entries

Albania

women married by age 15:
1.4% (2018)
women married by age 18:
11.8% (2018)
men married by age 18:
1.2% (2018)

Belarus

women married by age 15:
0.1% (2019)
women married by age 18:
4.7% (2019)
men married by age 18:
1.6% (2019)

Belgium

women married by age 15:
0% (2020)
women married by age 18:
0.1% (2020)

Denmark

women married by age 18:
0.7% (2021)

Finland

women married by age 18:
0.1% (2017)

Lithuania

women married by age 15:
0% (2022)
women married by age 18:
0.2% (2022)

Montenegro

women married by age 15:
1.9% (2018)
women married by age 18:
5.8% (2018)
men married by age 18:
3.2% (2018)

North Macedonia

women married by age 15:
0.3% (2019)
women married by age 18:
7.5% (2019)

Norway

women married by age 15:
0% (2022)
women married by age 18:
0% (2022)

Romania

women married by age 15:
0.5% (2021)
women married by age 18:
6.9% (2021)

Serbia

women married by age 15:
1.2% (2019)
women married by age 18:
5.5% (2019)

United Kingdom

women married by age 18:
0% (2021)

Middle East

7 entries

Gaza Strip

women married by age 15:
0.7% (2020)
women married by age 18:
13.4% (2020)

note: includes both the Gaza Strip and the West Bank

Iraq

women married by age 15:
7.2% (2018)
women married by age 18:
27.9% (2018)

Jordan

women married by age 15:
1.5% (2018)
women married by age 18:
9.7% (2018)
men married by age 18:
0.1% (2018)

Lebanon

women married by age 15:
1.4% (2016)
women married by age 18:
6% (2016)

Turkey (Turkiye) now Turkiye

women married by age 15:
2% (2018)
women married by age 18:
14.7% (2018)

West Bank

women married by age 15:
0.7% (2020)
women married by age 18:
13.4% (2020)

note: includes both the Gaza Strip and the West Bank

Yemen

women married by age 15:
6.5% (2023)
women married by age 18:
29.6% (2023)

North America

1 entry

Mexico

women married by age 15:
3.6% (2018)
women married by age 18:
20.7% (2018)

Oceania

7 entries

Fiji

women married by age 15:
0.2% (2021)
women married by age 18:
4% (2021)
men married by age 18:
1.7% (2021)

Kiribati

women married by age 15:
2.4% (2019)
women married by age 18:
18.4% (2019)
men married by age 18:
8.6% (2019)

Papua New Guinea

women married by age 15:
8% (2018)
women married by age 18:
27.3% (2018)
men married by age 18:
3.7% (2018)

Samoa

women married by age 15:
0.9% (2020)
women married by age 18:
7.4% (2020)
men married by age 18:
2% (2020)

Solomon Islands

women married by age 15:
5.6% (2015)
women married by age 18:
21.3% (2015)
men married by age 18:
4.4% (2015)

Tonga

women married by age 15:
0.4% (2019)
women married by age 18:
10.1% (2019)
men married by age 18:
2.8% (2019)

Tuvalu

women married by age 15:
0% (2020)
women married by age 18:
1.8% (2020)
men married by age 18:
1.7% (2020)

South America

8 entries

Argentina

women married by age 15:
2.4% (2020)
women married by age 18:
15.5% (2020)

Bolivia

women married by age 15:
3.4% (2016)
women married by age 18:
19.7% (2016)
men married by age 18:
5.2% (2016)

Colombia

women married by age 15:
4.9% (2015)
women married by age 18:
23.4% (2015)
men married by age 18:
6.7% (2015)

Ecuador

women married by age 15:
3.8% (2018)
women married by age 18:
22.2% (2018)

Guyana

women married by age 15:
6.3% (2020)
women married by age 18:
32.3% (2020)
men married by age 18:
11.9% (2020)

Paraguay

women married by age 15:
3.6% (2016)
women married by age 18:
21.6% (2016)

Peru

women married by age 15:
2% (2020)
women married by age 18:
14.1% (2020)

Suriname

women married by age 15:
8.8% (2018)
women married by age 18:
36% (2018)
men married by age 18:
19.6% (2018)

Southeast Asia

9 entries

Burma now Burma (Myanmar)

women married by age 15:
1.9% (2016)
women married by age 18:
16% (2016)
men married by age 18:
5% (2016)

Cambodia

women married by age 15:
1.9% (2022)
women married by age 18:
17.9% (2022)
men married by age 18:
3.3% (2022)

Indonesia

women married by age 15:
2% (2017)
women married by age 18:
16.3% (2017)

Laos

women married by age 15:
7.1% (2017)
women married by age 18:
32.7% (2017)
men married by age 18:
10.8% (2017)

Philippines

women married by age 15:
1.5% (2022)
women married by age 18:
9.4% (2022)

Singapore

women married by age 15:
0% (2023)
women married by age 18:
0.1% (2023)

Thailand

women married by age 15:
5.5% (2022)
women married by age 18:
17% (2022)
men married by age 18:
5.8% (2022)

Timor-Leste

women married by age 15:
2.6% (2016)
women married by age 18:
14.9% (2016)
men married by age 18:
1.2% (2016)

Vietnam

women married by age 15:
1.1% (2021)
women married by age 18:
14.6% (2021)
men married by age 18:
1.9% (2021)

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Central Intelligence Agency. The World Factbook 2025, “Child marriage”, all entries. Archived by The Factbook, thefactbook.org/fields/child-marriage.

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