Title: When Will Everyone I Know Be Married? | FiveThirtyEight
Headings: When Will Everyone I Know Be Married?
When Will Everyone I Know Be Married?
Ian (unmarried), 24, Lincoln, Nebraska
Hope the numbers help,
Mona

Content: Those numbers are relevant because remarriage is pretty common. As of 2013, 16.5 percent of men and 17.9 percent of women 18 and older had been married two or more times (3.6 percent of men and 3.8 percent of women 18 and older had been married three or more times). Finally, Ian, I tried to find international data on the age that people get married. I didn’t have great success. As part of its project on gender statistics, the World Bank tracks the average age that men and women in 214 countries and territories marry for the first time. Not every country submits data every year, though, and the most recent data, from 2011, covers just 25 countries and territories (and doesn’t include the U.S.). AVERAGE AGE AT FIRST MARRIAGE
COUNTRY
WOMEN
MEN
Ireland
31.8
33.0
Germany
31.7
34.1
Netherlands
31.5
33.9
Greenland
31.4
33.7
Austria
31.0
33.6
Denmark
31.0
32.8
Slovenia
30.7
33.2
South Africa
30.6
33.0
Czech Republic
30.2
32.6
Latvia
29.9
32.4
Lithuania
29.1
31.7
Cyprus
27.9
30.8
Macao SAR, China
27.7
29.5
Chile
27.4
29.3
Romania
26.6
29.8
Bulgaria
26.2
29.8
Albania
25.1
29.2
Uruguay
24.8
27.0
Costa Rica
23.9
27.0
Iran
23.5
26.8
Cameroon
21.3
27.0
Ethiopia
21.2
25.7
Uganda
20.0
24.3
Nepal
19.9
23.7
Bangladesh
18.6
25.4
There was a considerable range — between men in Germany, who wait until they’re 34.1 years old to marry, and those in Nepal, who, on average, get married for the first time at 23.7 years of age. For the women, the oldest age at first marriage was 31.8 years in Ireland (closely followed by Germany, where it was 31.7 years). In Bangladesh, on average women get married for the first time at just 18.6 years old, the youngest of any country in the recent data. If you do look around at all those weddings, Ian, and feel pressure to get married, remember that men tend to spend more time on this planet before they get hitched for the first time than women do.