The bar charts illustrate the percentage of people who got married in one particular country between 1998 and 2008. Overall, men generally got married later than women, with the 25-34 age group accounting for the highest proportion of marriage.
In 1998, people getting married at 16-19 accounted for the smallest proportion for both genders, with less than 1%. By contrast, women in the 20-24 age group were more likely to marry than men; comprising 6%; nearly three times higher than men. Over the next 10 years, the figures for both age groups decreased slightly. For those aged 16-19, the figures were negligible for both genders, making up less than 0,5%. However, roughly 3% of women got married in the 20-24 group, slightly higher than men, with nearly 2%. Approximately 11.5% of young female adults got married when they were 25 – 29 years old, as opposed to a slight drop to 8% among their male counterparts in 2008.
During the same period, there was a significant increase in the proportion of 30-34-year-old married people in both genders, who accounted for 8% of females and 11% of males in 2008, compared with 7% and 9%, respectively in 1998. More males in the 35 – 39 and 40 – 44 age groups got married, reaching 8,5% for the former and 2,2% for the latter in 2008.