Target name | Eliminate all harmful practices, such as child, early and forced marriage and female genital mutilation |
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Indicator name | Proportion of women aged 20-24 years old who were married before age 18 |
Global / Proxy indicator | Proxy indicator |
Description of indicator | This indicator is calculated by dividing number of women who were married before age 18 and now in the 20-24 age group to the total women population in the same age group. It was calculated from administrative registers only for formal marriages. |
Unit | % |
Available disaggregation | - |
Calculation | Proportion of women aged 20-24 years old who were married before age 18 = (Number of women in the 20-24 age group who married before the age of 18 / Total female population in the 20-24 age group) * 100 |
Comparability | Comparable over time. Since it is a proxy indicator, it differs from global metadata in some way. |
Revision | It is updated 1 year retrospectively due to new registrations (late marriage data) reflected in administrative records with a delay. https://dosya.tuik.gov.tr/FileLink/A4lIt-d98708c5-e827-4740-877e-304117b558ac/01.0003.RP.2022.00_ENG |
Other information | - |
Data source | TurkStat, Marriage Statistics |
Data source link | https://data.tuik.gov.tr/Bulten/Index?p=Marriage-and-Divorce-Statistics-2023-53707 |
Headline data
Year | Value |
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2015 | 2 |
2016 | 2 |
This table provides information on metadata for SDG indicators as defined by the UN Statistical Commission. Complete global metadata is provided by the UN Statistics Division.
Target name |
Eliminate all harmful practices, such as child, early and forced marriage and female genital mutilation |
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Indicator name |
Proportion of women aged 20–24 years who were married or in a union before age 15 and before age 18 |
Designated tier |
Tier I |
Custodian agency |
United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) |
Link to the global metadata of this indicator | United Nations Sustainable Development Goals Metadata (PDF 294 KB) opens in a new window |