Marriage age, partner-age preferences, child-marriage indicators and age-range interpretation.
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The cited enacted laws set 18 as the minimum for both sexes in Punjab, Sindh, Balochistan and Islamabad Capital Territory. Punjab’s current source is the Act gazetted on 11 May 2026, not…
The 2023 Census recorded the largest absolute number of divorced people in the 35–39 age group, 79,079, closely followed by ages 30–34 with 78,348. Separation counts were…
Among 199 women aged 26–30 who had saved age preferences, 70.9% included an older age band and 66.3% included their own 26–30 band. Because the field allowed more than one...
Among 1,045 men aged 26–30 with saved age preferences, 74.9% included a younger age band and 61.4% included their own 26–30 band. Those percentages are not alternatives bec...
Yes, the same-age comparison showed different directions. Among preference setters aged 26–30, 70.9% of women included an older band and 66.3% included their own band; 74.9...
The study analyzed the age bands that eligible Weddme profiles saved as acceptable for a partner. It converted selected bands into a minimum age, maximum age, midpoint, ran...
A saved partner-age range is the span created from one or more age bands a profile marked as acceptable for search. For multiple selections, the analysis used the lowest se...
The midpoint is the center of the saved acceptable range, calculated by adding its minimum and maximum ages and dividing by two. A saved range of 26–30 has a midpoint of 28...
The typical result was a median midpoint gap of −2.0 years across 3,129 analyzed profiles. In other words, the middle saved range was centered two years below the profile h...
The median saved age-range width was seven years, showing that the typical analyzed profile used a span rather than one exact partner age. Half of the profiles had widths a...
Yes. The saved partner-age range included the profile holder’s own age for 1,993 of 3,129 analyzed profiles, or 63.7%. Within the full cohort, 33.9% had a similar-age-cente...
“Centered similar age” means the midpoint of the saved partner-age range fell within two years below or above the profile holder’s age. Formally, the midpoint gap was betwe...
Among 2,596 men’s profiles, 55.5% had ranges centered younger, 33.3% centered similar, and 11.2% centered older; the median midpoint gap was −2.5 years. Among 533 women’s p...
Own-age inclusion declined as profile age increased. It was 83.8% among profiles aged 18–24, 64.6% at 25–29, 53.1% at 30–34, and 32.4% at 45 and above. The median midpoint...
The product’s 51+ category has no fixed upper limit, but midpoint and width calculations require a maximum. The main analysis capped it at 60, which could have distorted re...
Non-contiguous selections appeared in only 17 profiles, equal to 0.54% of the full 3,129-profile analytical cohort. Among the narrower group of 1,378 profiles that selected...
Pakistan’s young-adult population is spread across three large five-year groups in the 2023 Census: about 20.47 million people aged 20–24, 17.97 million aged 25–29, and 15....
Approximately 54.20 million people aged 20–34 lived in Pakistan at the 2023 Census reference point. They represented about 22.5% of the national population. This combined t...
The Pakistan Demographic Survey tabulates live births by the mother’s age and by urban or rural residence. These age-specific counts help demographers examine fertility pat...
The 2017–18 Pakistan DHS reported a median age at first marriage of 20.4 years for women aged 25–49. The age restriction matters because most women in this group had enough...
Age at first marriage can be calculated only for people who have married, while younger respondents still include many who will marry later. Restricting the median to women...
Yes, women’s age at first marriage has risen gradually in Pakistan across the 1990–91, 2006–07, 2012–13, and 2017–18 DHS waves. The change was not a sudden or uniform trans...
Most women aged 15–19 who will marry later have not yet had a first marriage, so their marriage age is unavailable at the time of the survey. Calculating an average only am...
Across the DHS analyses, women living in urban areas generally had a higher age at first marriage than women living in rural areas. For currently married women aged 25–49 i...
Age at first marriage is an observed demographic event: the respondent’s age when the first marriage occurred. Preferred partner age on Weddme is a saved search parameter r...
UNICEF defines child marriage as marriage or union before age 18 and reports that Pakistan is home to more than 19 million women who were married as children. Its country p...
The survey-derived 2018 indicator reports that 18.3% of Pakistani women aged 20–24 had first married or entered a union before age 18. Using women aged 20–24 ensures every...
Among Pakistani women aged 20–24 in the 2017–18 survey data, about 3.6% had married before age 15 and 18.3% before age 18. The second figure includes the first group, so th...
The standard prevalence indicator usually asks what share of women aged 20–24 married before age 18. That cohort has completed exposure to the threshold, while a group of c...
Earlier marriage generally creates earlier exposure to first birth, and Pakistan DHS data shows first birth follows marriage for most women. In 2017–18, median age at first…
Weddme age-preference findings describe saved partner-age ranges, not final marriage outcomes or national preferences.
Saved age ranges measure search breadth among Weddme users included in the age-preference study.