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Marriages and divorces

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05742: Average age at marriage, by sex, observed, contents and year

	1974	1980	1990	2000	2017
	Average age at marriage
Females
Observed average age for never married	22.8	23.6	26.2	29.2	32.3
Males
Observed average age for never married	25.3	26.2	28.8	31.8	34.9

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Males resident in Norway and females resident in Norway.

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The average age is average of those actually marrying in the period, thus being influenced by cohort size variations. ('Exact age', calculated as an average of completed years plus 0,5 years).

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