WORLD Child Marriage Laws 2013

The WORLD Child Marriage Laws 2013 dataset was created to assess progress on laws prohibiting child marriage which jeopardizes educational attainment, health, economic opportunities, and gender equality through a systematic review of legislation governing the legal minimum age of marriage across all 193 UN countries as of June 2013. The dataset covers the legal minimum age of marriage for girls and boys, as well as exceptions to minimum ages with parental consent and under religious and customary law. A public use legislative repository is also included providing the legislation used to code each country. About the data creators: The WORLD Policy Analysis Center (WORLD) is committed to improving the quantity and quality of globally comparative data available to policymakers, citizens, civil society, and researchers on laws and policies that work to support human rights, including economic opportunity, social and civic engagement, human health, development, well-being, and equity.

《2013年全球童婚法律数据集》（WORLD Child Marriage Laws 2013）旨在通过系统性梳理截至2013年6月联合国（United Nations，UN）193个成员国的婚姻法定最低年龄相关立法，评估各国在禁止童婚的法律制定方面所取得的进展——童婚会损害受教育成就、健康水平、经济机遇与性别平等。该数据集涵盖了女童与男童的法定结婚最低年龄，以及经父母同意、依据宗教或习惯法可放宽最低婚龄的例外情形。数据集还附带公开可用的立法资料库，收录了用于为各国婚姻法律进行编码的原始立法文本。关于数据创建方：全球政策分析中心（WORLD Policy Analysis Center，简称WORLD）致力于提升可面向政策制定者、民众、公民社会与研究人员获取的全球比较性数据的数量与质量，此类数据围绕旨在保障人权的法律法规与政策展开，涵盖经济机遇、社会与公民参与、人类健康、发展、福祉与公平等领域。