Age at first marriage

This is an incomplete list of the average ages of people when they first marry in various countries. This list is current (from year 2000 or later) and does not treat the topic in history.

Because the age distribution of the marriageable population is skewed,^[1] the median age is a more precise representation of the average age. However, for most reporting sources, only the mean ages are given. A still more accurate and precise method of representation, one not distorted by either omitting unmarried people from the sample or falsely treating their current age as their age of first marriage, is to take a sample of persons at each of a set of evenly spaced age increments, beginning with the age of legal eligibility of marriage and ending at the highest age for which a sufficiently large sample of living persons can be found, asking each member of each sample whether s/he has ever been married, and defining the average age of first marriage as the lowest age interval among whose members 50% or more answer "yes."

Americas

Country	Men	Women	Average	Year	Source
Brazil	28	26	27	2006	[2]
Canada	31.1	29.1	30.1	2008	[3]
Mexico	29	26	27.9	2011	[4]
United States	29	27	28	2013	[5]

Asia

Country	Men	Women	Average	Year	Source
Indonesia	25.7	22.3	24	2010	[6]
Hong Kong	31.2	28.9	30	2011	[7]
Taiwan	32.0	29.7	30.8	2014	[8]
China	24+	22+	23	2010	[9]
India	28	22.2	24.1	2011	[10]
Iran	27.4	22.1	24.8	2013	[11]
Israel	31.5	28.8	28.2	2007	[12]
Japan	30.9	29.3	29.7	2013	[13]
Lebanon	32.8	28.8	30.8	2006	[14]
Philippines	28	25.3	26.7	2011	[15]
Singapore	30	28.5	29.3	2010	[16]
South Korea	32.4	29.8	31.1	2014	[17]
Tajikistan	26.2	22.4	24.3	2008	[12]
Kazakhstan	26.8	24.1	25.5	2008	[12]
Kyrgyzstan	26.7	23.4	25.1	2008	[12]
Kuwait	27	27	27	2012	[6]
Malaysia	28	25.7	26.9	2010	[18]
Mongolia	26.2	24.2	25.2	2010	[19]
Vietnam	26.2	22.8	24.5	2009	[20]
Uzbekistan	25.2	22.4	23.8	2006	[12]

Europe

Country	Men	Women	Year	Source
Albania	29.3	23.6	2011	[12]
Austria	32.2	29.8	2012	[12]
Azerbaijan	27.6	23.4	2011	[12]
Armenia	29	25	2011	[12]
Belarus	26.6	24.5	2011	[12]
Belgium	32	29.6	2012	[12]
Bosnia and Herzegovina	29.1	25.9	2011	[12]
Bulgaria	30.6	27.5	2014	[21]
Croatia	30.4	27.6	2011	[12]
Czech Republic	32.4	29.6	2011	[22]
Cyprus	30.9	29	2012	[12]
Denmark	34.8	32.2	2012	[12]
Estonia	30.4	27.9	2010	[12]
Finland	33.1	30.9	2012	[12]
France	31.8	30	2010	[12]
Georgia	29.4	26	2011	[12]
Germany	33.5	30.7	2012	[12]
Greece	32.5	29.6	2012	[12]
Hungary	31.8	29.1	2011	[12]
Iceland	34.6	32.7	2011	[12]
Ireland	33.2	31.6	2011	[12]
Italy	33.8	30.8	2012	[12]
Latvia	29.7	27.7	2011	[12]
Lithuania	29	26.6	2011	[12]
Luxembourg	31.9	29.8	2012	[12]
Macedonia	28.3	25.4	2011	[12]
Malta	29.9	27.8	2010	[12]
Moldova	26	23	2010	[12]
Montenegro	31	27	2011	[12]
Netherlands	33.1	30.5	2013	[23]
Norway	33.5	31.4	2012	[12]
Poland	27.7	25.8	2011	[12]
Portugal	31.4	29.9	2012	[12]
Romania	29	26	2011	[12]
Russia	27.4	24.9	2011	[24]
Serbia	30.5	27.4	2011	[12]
Slovakia	29.9	27.2	2011	[12]
Slovenia	31	29	2011	[12]
Spain	33.8	31.7	2012	[12]
Sweden	35.6	33.1	2011	[12]
Switzerland	31.8	29.5	2011	[12]
Turkey	26.6	23.3	2011	[12]
Ukraine	27.1	24.5	2010	[12]
United Kingdom	33.1	30	2010	[12]

Oceania

Country	Men	Women	Median	Year	Source
Australia	30.8	28.1	29.5	2012	[25]

See also

• Advanced maternal age

References

External links

• United Nations World Marriage Patterns 2000
• Europe: Eurostat numbers for 2006
• Age at first marriage: interactive data visualizations