Denmark vs Sweden: Age at first marriage, male

Denmark

33.6

in 2018

Sweden

33.2

in 2018

Denmark rank

19th

Sweden rank

22nd

Age at first marriage, male over time

Denmark
Sweden

How they compare

Denmark currently reports 33.6 against 33.2 in Sweden, a difference of 0.4.

The two have swapped places 5 times across 41 shared years of data; in 1970 it was Sweden ahead.

Globally, Denmark ranks 19th and Sweden ranks 22nd of 144 countries.

Individual pages

Age at first marriage, male in Denmark
Age at first marriage, male in Sweden
Full country ranking

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.