Before you play
What This Child Marriage Figure Means
This game compares the share of women ages 20 to 24 who were first married by age 18.
- The denominator is young adult women looking backward at what happened before adulthood.
- The figure overlaps with schooling, poverty, law, coercion, family strategy, and gender power all at once.
- A marriage statistic gets much darker when the threshold is 18.
This is where demographic routine and coercive childhood theft start sharing a spreadsheet.