The Child Marriage Dataset was created to assess progress on laws prohibiting child marriage which jeopardizes educational attainment, health, economic opportunities, and gender equality through a systematic review of legislation governing the legal minimum age of marriage across all 193 UN countries as of May 2023. The dataset covers the legal minimum age of marriage for girls and boys, as well as exceptions to minimum ages with parental consent and under religious and customary law. The 2023 dataset contains longitudinal data for a subset of countries on laws from 1995 to 2023. Full datasets for all countries with laws in place as of 2013 and 2019 are also available to download. WORLD’s public use legislative repository is also available for download through Harvard dataverse (https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/N4DNHL) which provides legislation used to code each country.
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