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Regional and youth studies suggest that education, communication technology and longer premarital interaction can increase young adults’ participation in spouse choice, but…
Analyses of successive Pakistan DHS rounds find that marriage to relatives remained high from 1990–91 through 2017–18 rather than showing a simple national collapse. The…
The evidence points toward later marriage, but a precise trend in never-married young adults needs the same age groups and definitions across census or survey rounds. Census…
Among men aged 30–49, the median age at first marriage rose from 24.7 years in PDHS 2012–13 to 25.9 in PDHS 2017–18. Over the same interval, the share married by age 22 fell…
National evidence does not yet justify a clear trend claim about the actual age gap within couples. PDHS reported separate median ages at first marriage for women and…
Yes, national survey evidence shows decline, although child marriage has not disappeared. In PDHS, the share of women aged 25–49 who had married by 18 fell from 35% in…
The clearest comparable movement was toward later first marriage. Women’s median age at first marriage rose from 19.5 to 20.4 years, while men’s rose from 24.7 to 25.9. The…
PDHS 2017–18 shows a current difference: women aged 25–49 had a median age at first marriage of 21.3 in urban areas and 19.8 in rural areas; for men aged 30–49, the medians…
The latest Labour Force Survey reports a female labour-force participation rate of 22.7% in 2024–25, compared with 68.7% for men under the survey’s current standard. PDHS…
HIES estimates show a modest decline in average household size from 6.24 people in 2018–19 to 5.98 in 2024–25. Urban households fell from 5.97 to 5.69, while rural…
Yes over the long run, although recent movement is slow. The comparable PDHS series reported total fertility of 4.9 births per woman in 1990–91, 4.1 in 2006–07, 3.8 in…
The median age at first birth among women aged 25–49 increased from 21.3 years in PDHS 1990–91 to 22.8 in PDHS 2017–18. The direction is consistent with later marriage,…