Country

Year

Population
15 - 19 ever married (%)

Singulate mean age at marriage

Notes

W

M

W

M

Africa

Algeria

1992

4

..

26

..

Benin

1996

29

..

20

..

Botswana

1991

5

2

27

31

Burkina Faso

1999

35

1

19

26

Burundi

1990

7

1

22

26

Cameroon

1998

36

4

20

27

Cape Verde

1990

7

1

26

28

Central African Republic

1995

42

8

20

24

Chad

1996

49

6

18

24

Comoros

1996

12

3

24

28

Cote d'Ivoire

1999

25

2

22

28

Egypt

1996

15

2

22

28

Eritrea

1995

38

2

20

25

Ethiopia

2000

30

3

21

26

Gabon

2001

22

4

22

26

Gambia

1993

39

2

20

28

Ghana

1998

16

3

21

27

Guinea

1999

46

2

19

28

Kenya

1998

17

1

22

26

Lesotho

1986

18

2

21

26

Liberia

1986

36

..

20

..

Libyan Arab Jamahiriya

1995

1

0

29

32

Madagascar

1997

34

..

21

..

Malawi

2000

37

4

19

24

Mali

1996

50

5

18

26

Mauritania

2001

28

1

22

29

Mauritius

1990

11

1

24

28

Morocco

1994

13

1

25

30

Mozambique

1997

47

4

18

23

Namibia

1992

8

..

26

..

Niger

1998

62

4

18

24

Nigeria

1999

28

3

21

27

Réunion

1990

2

0

28

30

Rwanda

2000

7

2

23

26

Sao Tome and Principe