India Marriage, divorce and children Stats
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- Childless women, aged 40-44: Proportion of women who have not given birth by age 40-44.
- Contraception use among married women > Any method: Current contraceptive use among married women 15-49 years old, any method, percentage.
- Contraception use among married women > Any method > Percentage: Percentage of all married women aged 15-49 who report using any type of contraceptive.
- Contraception use among married women > Condom: Current contraceptive use among married women 15-49 years old, condom, percentage.
- Contraception use among married women > Condom > Percentage: Percentage of all married women aged 15-49 who report using condoms.
- Contraception use among married women > Modern methods: Current contraceptive use among married women 15-49 years old, modern methods, percentage.
- Contraception use among married women > Modern methods > Percentage: Percentage of all married women aged 15-49 who report using modern methods of contraception.
- Marriage rate for girls under 18: Percentage of women currently aged 20 to 24 who were married or in a marriage-like union before the age of 18.
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Marriageable age > Females:
Female consent.
No date was available from the Wikipedia article, so we used the date of retrieval.
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Marriageable age > Males:
Male consent.
No date was available from the Wikipedia article, so we used the date of retrieval.
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Marriageable age > Notes:
Notes.
No date was available from the Wikipedia article, so we used the date of retrieval.
- Minimum marrying age > Without parental consent > For Men: Minimum legal age at which men can be married without parental consent.
- Minimum marrying age > Without parental consent > For Women: Minimum legal age at which women can be married without parental consent.
- Teen marriage rate > Women: Percentage of female population aged 15-19 who has been married at least once. Percentage is out of total number of females in the same age group.
- Women denied family planning: Percentage of sexually active women who are able to but do not want to reproduce without access to family planning services.
- Years spent single before marriage > Females: Singulate mean age at marriage.
- Years spent single before marriage > Males: Singulate mean age at marriage.
SOURCES: United Nations Statistics Division. Source tables; United Nations Statistics Division. Source tables; United Nations Statistics Division; United Nations Statistics Division. Source tables; United Nations Statistics Division. Source tables; Child Marriage Facts and Figures; Wikipedia: Marriageable age (Africa); Wikipedia: Marriageable age (South America); United Nations Statistics Division. Source tables; United Nations Statistics Division. Source tables; United Nations Statistics Division. Source tables; United Nations Statistics Division. Source tables; United Nations Statistics Division. Source tables
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