This is a list of countries by age at first marriage. The list is current from contemporary surveys. It does not treat the topic in history. Currency of information varies by country. Because the age distribution of people at first marriage is skewed with a longer tail towards older ages,[1] the majority of people marry before the average age of first marriage. The median age is a more precise representation of when the majority of people marry; for most reporting sources, however, only the average age at marriage is reported.[citation needed]
Note: the reported age for these countries is the median, not the mean (average). All countries in italics have their data in the mean and not the median.
^Statistics Bureau, Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications, Japan. "Statistical Handbook of Japan 2019". pp. 18, Table 2.8 "Mean Age of First Marriage".{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
^Median age at first marriage for citizens, Department of Statistics, Singapore "Population in Brief 2015"(PDF). September 2015. Archived from the original(PDF) on 19 January 2016. Retrieved 7 February 2016.. Page 21, Accessed 7 February 2016.
^Christiansen, Publisert Oppdatert Skrevet av: Solveig Tobie Glestad (30 June 2014). "Befolkningen i Norge". Folkehelseinstituttet.
^Kiribati Demographic and Health Survey 2009 (Report). Kiribati National Statistics Office, and the Secretariat of the Pacific Community. 2010. p. 93. ISBN978-982-00-0451-1.
^Republic of Nauru Demographic and Health Survey 2007 (Report). The Nauru Bureau of Statistics, the Secretariat of the Pacific Community, and Macro International Inc. 2009. p. 77. ISBN978-982-00-0333-0.
^Tonga Demographic and Health Survey 2012(PDF) (Report). Tonga Ministry of Health, Tonga Department of Statistics, the Secretariat of the Pacific Community, and United Nations Population Fund. 2014. p. 80. ISBN978-982-00-0661. Retrieved 3 September 2016.{{cite report}}: CS1 maint: ignored ISBN errors (link)