5.3.1 Marriage before age 15, by type of settlements

5.3.1 Marriage before age 15, by type of settlements

5.3.1 Proportion of women aged 20-24 years who were married or in a union before age 15 and before age 18

5.3 Eliminate all harmful practices, such as child, early and forced marriage and female genital mutilation

Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls

Number of women aged 20-24 who were first married/in union before age 15 in relation to the total number of interviewed women aged 20-24.

The indicator captures all formal and informal cohabiting unions. For comparability, age 18 is used as a standard across countries as the common age of majority, though the threshold age between childhood and adulthood varies across countries, as does the legal age at marriage.

Number of women aged 20-24 who were first married or in union before age 15 divided by the total number of women aged 20-24 in the population multiplied by 100.

%

Type of settlements

Serbia north, Serbia south

Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey (MICS)

Every four years

C050301

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