{"id":2100,"date":"2013-01-24T15:46:41","date_gmt":"2013-01-24T20:46:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/?p=2100"},"modified":"2013-01-24T15:46:41","modified_gmt":"2013-01-24T20:46:41","slug":"age-of-marriage-by-country","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/2013\/01\/24\/age-of-marriage-by-country\/","title":{"rendered":"Age of Marriage by Country"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/practice-of-child-marriage-for-girls.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/practice-of-child-marriage-for-girls.jpg\" alt=\"Practice of child marriage for girls by country\" title=\"practice of child marriage for girls\" width=\"640\" height=\"392\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2101\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/practice-of-child-marriage-for-girls.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/practice-of-child-marriage-for-girls-300x183.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/practice-of-child-marriage-for-girls-489x300.jpg 489w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We return to the excellent <a href=\"http:\/\/womanstats.org\">WomanStats Project<\/a> to share <a href=\"http:\/\/womanstats.org\/newmapspage.html\">a map they created<\/a> illustrating which countries allow marriage of girls who are under 16 years of age. You&#8217;ll notice from the map that there are many countries in Africa where underage marriage is common. Other regions of the world where the practice is widespread include the Middle East, South and Southeast Asia, and Oceania. <\/p>\n<p><span class='st_facebook' st_title='Age of Marriage by Country' st_url='https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/2013\/01\/24\/age-of-marriage-by-country\/' displayText='facebook'><\/span><span st_via='indexmundi' st_username='indexmundi' class='st_twitter' st_title='Age of Marriage by Country' st_url='https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/2013\/01\/24\/age-of-marriage-by-country\/' displayText='twitter'><\/span><span class='st_email' st_title='Age of Marriage by Country' st_url='https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/2013\/01\/24\/age-of-marriage-by-country\/' displayText='email'><\/span><span class='st_sharethis' st_title='Age of Marriage by Country' st_url='https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/2013\/01\/24\/age-of-marriage-by-country\/' displayText='sharethis'><\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We return to the excellent WomanStats Project to share a map they created illustrating which countries allow marriage of girls who are under 16 years of age. You&#8217;ll notice from the map that there are many countries in Africa where underage marriage is common. Other regions of the world where the practice is widespread include [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<p><span class='st_facebook' st_title='Age of Marriage by Country' st_url='https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/2013\/01\/24\/age-of-marriage-by-country\/' displayText='facebook'><\/span><span st_via='indexmundi' st_username='indexmundi' class='st_twitter' st_title='Age of Marriage by Country' st_url='https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/2013\/01\/24\/age-of-marriage-by-country\/' displayText='twitter'><\/span><span class='st_email' st_title='Age of Marriage by Country' st_url='https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/2013\/01\/24\/age-of-marriage-by-country\/' displayText='email'><\/span><span class='st_sharethis' st_title='Age of Marriage by Country' st_url='https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/2013\/01\/24\/age-of-marriage-by-country\/' displayText='sharethis'><\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[32,30],"tags":[621,620,106],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2100"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2100"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2100\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2102,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2100\/revisions\/2102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}