WORLD Child Marriage Laws 2023 v1.1

The WORLD Child Marriage Laws 2023 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 May 2023. 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. 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.《2023年WORLD童婚法律数据集》旨在通过系统性梳理截至2023年5月联合国全部193个成员国的法定最低婚龄相关立法，评估禁止童婚的法律的实施进展——童婚会危及教育成就、健康状况、经济机遇与性别平等。本数据集涵盖女童与男童的法定最低婚龄，以及经父母同意、依据宗教或习惯法可豁免最低婚龄的特殊情形。此外，数据集还附带公开可用的立法资料库，收录了为各成员国进行数据编码所依据的立法文本。世界政策分析中心（WORLD Policy Analysis Center，简称WORLD）致力于提升全球比较数据的数量与质量，为政策制定者、民众、民间社会组织与研究人员提供旨在保障人权的各类法律与政策相关数据，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。