Ethiopia vs Nigeria: Age at first marriage, female

Ethiopia

21.3

in 2016

Nigeria

21.2

in 2013

Ethiopia rank

136th

Nigeria rank

138th

Age at first marriage, female over time

Ethiopia
Nigeria

How they compare

Ethiopia currently reports 21.3 against 21.2 in Nigeria, a difference of 0.1.

Globally, Ethiopia ranks 136th and Nigeria ranks 138th of 166 countries.

Individual pages

Age at first marriage, female in Ethiopia
Age at first marriage, female in Nigeria
Full country ranking

About this data

Indicator: Age at first marriage, female
Source: United Nations, Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Population Division. World Marriage Data 2019
Licence: CC BY 4.0 (World Bank Open Data)
Coverage: 166 places, 1,932 data points, 1960–2019
Last refreshed: 06 August 2026

Mean age at marriage, female shows the average length of single life expressed in years among those females who marry before age 50. It is a synthetic indicator calculated from marital status categories of men and women aged 15 to 54 at the census or survey date.