Simply question; What age do women first get married? A fairly complex answer, fortunately Hans Rosling and the gapminder team have processed the statistics and the answer is here, just press the play button towards the bottom to see the average age over time change for the world with China, India and United Kingdom trials shown.

Globally the average age has increased over the past 100 years although in the UK the average dropped in the sixties and seventies before it started to rise dramatically. Remember this just counts first marriages thus excludes second and other remarriages.