DRAFT - Homepage | ESCAP

While 16 percent of women aged 15-19 years were married during the 1970 census, this had declined to 6 per cent in 1984 and further to 4.8 per cent during the 2000 census. The mean age at first marriage for women has risen from 23.5 years in 1980 to 25.1 years in 2000, thus delaying childbearing and subsequently lowering the rate of population ... ................
................