Progress
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On track or target met

Desired direction: Decrease

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Headline data

Proportion of 16 and 17 year old women who have married a man
Year Value Units
2022 0.0 %
2012 0.01 %
2021 0.0 %
2016 0.0 %
2017 0.01 %
2013 0.01 %
2014 0.01 %
2011 0.0 %
2023 0.0 %
2020 0.0 %
2010 0.01 %
2018 0.0 %
2019 0.01 %
2024 0.0 %
2015 0.0 %

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Footnote:

Methodological sheet of the indicator available for the Autonomous Community of the Basque Country.

Available indicator

Proportion of 16 and 17 year old women who have married a man
Target

5.3 Eliminate all harmful practices, such as child, early and forced marriage and female genital mutilation
Goal

5- Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls
Definition

Marriages of women aged 16–17 years with a man for every 100 women aged 16–17 years
Theoretical formula \[PMAT_{women\, 16-17}^{t} = \frac{MAT_{women\, 16-17}^{t}}{P_{women\, 16-17}^{t}} \cdot 100\]

where:

$MAT_{women\, 16-17}^{t} =$ Marriages of women aged 16–17 years with a man in year $t$

$P_{women\, 16-17}^{t} =$ women aged 16–17 years as of 1 July of year $t$
Available disaggregations

Province
Frequency

Annual
Data last updated 2025/10/24
Metadata last updated 2025/08/14

Source 1

Eustat-Basque Statistics Institute
Organisation Eustat-Basque Statistics Institute
Periodicity Annual
Link to data source Marriage Statistics

This section provides more information about the United Nations indicator or the European Union Sustainable Development Indicator, such as its rationale, international results, metadata, and other relevant statistics.

Rationale

Marriage before the age of 18 is a fundamental violation of human rights. Child marriage often compromises a girl’s development by resulting in early pregnancy and social isolation, interrupting her schooling, limiting her opportunities for career and vocational advancement and placing her at increased risk of intimate partner violence.

In many cultures, girls reaching puberty are expected to assume gender roles associated with womanhood. These include entering a union and becoming a mother. The practice of early/child marriage is a direct manifestation of gender inequality.

The issue of child marriage is addressed in a number of international conventions and agreements. Although marriage is not mentioned directly in the Convention on the Rights of the Child, child marriage is linked to other rights – such as the right to freedom of expression, the right to protection from all forms of abuse, and the right to be protected from harmful traditional practices.

Source: United Nations Statistics Division
Comparability between the available indicator and the UN indicator

The available indicator does not comply with the metadata of the United Nations indicator but provides similar information. According to the official definition, the indicator considers as the reference population women aged 20 to 24 at the time of measurement. However, in the Basque Autonomous Community it is calculated using as the denominator the population of women aged 16 and 17 in the reference year.
International results

Proportion of women aged 20-24 years who were married or in a union before age 18 (%) SP_DYN_MRBF18 UNSTATS
Link to UN metadata

Metadata 5-3-1.pdf
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