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.