![]() 5.3.1 Marriage before age 15, by education levelMetadataPeriod: Every four yearsYear: 2025 |
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Indicator information |
Definition and methodology |
Data source type and data collection method |
Notes |
ID of global indicator |
Metadata update |
Global metadata |
Indicator information | Top |
Indicator | |
5.3.1 Marriage before age 15, by education level | |
Global indicator name | |
5.3.1 Proportion of women aged 20-24 years who were married or in a union before age 15 and before age 18 | |
Target | |
5.3 Eliminate all harmful practices, such as child, early and forced marriage and female genital mutilation | |
Goal | |
Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls |
Definition and methodology | Top |
Definition | |
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. | |
Methodological explanations | |
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. | |
Method of calculation | |
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. | |
Unit of measure | |
% | |
Available disaggregation | |
Education Level | |
Territorial level | |
Serbia north, Serbia south |
Data source type and data collection method | Top |
Data source | |
Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey (MICS) | |
Periodicity of data collection | |
Every four years |
Notes | Top |
ID of global indicator | Top |
C050301 |
Metadata update | Top |
2/6/2025 |
Global metadata | Top |
https://unstats.un.org/sdgs/metadata/files/Metadata-05-03-01.pdf |