Denmark vs Ireland: Age at first marriage, male

Denmark

33.6

in 2018

Ireland

33.4

in 2016

Denmark rank

19th

Ireland rank

21st

Age at first marriage, male over time

Denmark
Ireland

How they compare

Denmark currently reports 33.6 against 33.4 in Ireland, a difference of 0.2.

The two have swapped places 5 times across 17 shared years of data; in 1971 it was Ireland ahead.

Globally, Denmark ranks 19th and Ireland ranks 21st of 144 countries.

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About this data

Indicator: Age at first marriage, male
Source: United Nations, Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Population Division. World Marriage Data
Licence: CC BY 4.0 (World Bank Open Data)
Coverage: 144 places, 1,646 data points, 1960–2019
Last refreshed: 06 August 2026

Mean age at marriage, male shows the average length of single life expressed in years among those males 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.