Child Marriage

Every edition in one file, one row per country per edition: child-marriage-all-editions-nations-inquiry.csv

Every column in the newest file of Child Marriage: what it holds, how it is stored, and its range.

Column	What it holds	Stored as	Range, 2025	Distinct	Empty	Spread
CountrycountryName	The country’s name, as this file spells it.	Text	—	145	0
ISO Codecountry_codeIdentifier	The ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 code, added by this site. Every table here joins on it.	Text · 3 letters	—	145	0
Women 20–24 married before 18 (%)married_before_18Headline	The headline figure: Women 20–24 married before 18 (%).	Number · up to 1 decimal	0.03 share it76.3Nigermiddle 17.1	122	0
Women 20–24 married before 15 (%)married_before_15Measure	Share of women aged 20–24 who were first married or in union before their fifteenth birthday, in %.	Number · up to 1 decimal	0.015 share it28.0Nigermiddle 2.6	80	3
Men 20–24 married before 18 (%)men_married_before_18Measure	Share of men aged 20–24 who were married or in union before their eighteenth birthday, in %.	Number · up to 1 decimal	0.05 share it22.2Belizemiddle 2.8	65	44
Survey yearsurvey_yearReading year	The year this country’s reading describes. Readings from different years sit side by side.	Year	—	18	0
Source surveydata_sourceLabel	Survey or register the country's figure comes from, such as a MICS or DHS round or a national statistics office.	Text	—	77	0

Profiled from the newest file. Range: the lowest and highest value, with the country holding it when only one does. Spread: countries in ten equal steps from lowest to highest. A higher value is the worse result.

One edition, covering 145 countries.

Not in this dataset · 80 places this site covers

UNICEF gives no figure for these in any edition held here. It is the publisher’s choice of scope, and each place’s profile shows what is measured.

American SamoaAndorraAnguillaAntigua and BarbudaArubaAustraliaAustriaBahamasBahrainBermudaBotswanaBritish Virgin IslandsBruneiBulgariaCanadaCayman IslandsChannel IslandsCook IslandsCroatiaCuraçaoCyprusCzechiaDominicaEstoniaFaroe IslandsFranceFrench PolynesiaGermanyGibraltarGreeceGreenlandGrenadaGuamHong KongHungaryIcelandIrelandIsle of ManItalyJapanKuwaitLatviaLiechtensteinLuxembourgMacauMalaysiaMaltaMauritiusMicronesiaMonacoMontserratNetherlandsNew CaledoniaNew ZealandNiueNorthern CyprusNorthern Mariana IslandsPalauPolandPortugalPuerto RicoSaint Kitts and NevisSaint MartinSaint Vincent and the GrenadinesSan MarinoSeychellesSint MaartenSlovakiaSloveniaSomalilandSouth KoreaSpainSwedenSwitzerlandTaiwanUnited Arab EmiratesUnited StatesUnited States Virgin IslandsVatican CityVenezuela

1. 1 · Publisher

   UNICEF

   data.unicef.org

2. 2 · Their file

   Child Marriage — UNICEF global databases (to 2025)

   all

3. 3 · Read by this site

   September 10, 2026

   Imported by a script that parses each figure and writes it down unrounded.

4. 4 · Stored as

   1 file, one per edition

   It downloads as a CSV: child-marriage-all-editions-nations-inquiry.csv

5. 5 · Used on

   Its statistic page, and every profile it measures

   /statistics/child-marriage

From UNICEF’s SDMX data warehouse, stored at one decimal, which is the precision UNICEF and the underlying DHS and MICS rounds publish rather than a truncation applied here.