The bar charts illustrate the ages of individuals by two genders when they get married in a specific country in two years, including 1996 and 2008. Overall, both males and females tended to enter marriage at older ages after a twelve-year period, with women being more likely to get married earlier than their male counterparts. It is also worth noting that the peak rate of getting married for males shifted towards the middle-aged groups, whereas the 25-29 bracket remained as the group leading among women.
Outnumbering the figure for male individuals, the 25-29-year-old women had the highest percentage of getting married with 12% in both surveyed years, compared to only 8% in 1996 and 9% for their male cohorts. Similarly, the 20-24 group and 16-19 group also showed a discrepancy between males and females, although the gap between two genders narrowed significantly. The figure for women aged 20-24 halved to 3%, which only generated a one-percentage-point gap with males by 2008, while it was a 0.5-percentage-point gap between females and males in the youngest segment.
In older age groups, males notably showed dominance compared to female individuals. Specifically, the figure for 35-39-year-old men rose substantially from around 7% to approximately 11.5%, which was nearly four times higher than female counterparts. Notwithstanding generating a less notable gap, males in the 30-34 group climbed to nearly 11% in 2008 and continued to exceed females in the rate of getting married, as the corresponding for women only grew to 8% in the same year. The dominance of males was also recorded in the oldest group, where the figure for males dipped by nearly 1.5% to 3.5% but still led over women, whose figure at precisely 2% thoroughly.