Marriage Map
Interactive globe & timeline
Marriage around the world — divorce, family & the history of marriage
An interactive globe that colours every country by a dimension of marriage — divorce rate, children per woman, age at first marriage, the legal floor on marriage age, polygamy and marriage equality — beside a scrubbable history of marriage that runs from the first written marriage law in ancient Sumer to no-fault divorce and marriage equality today.
A free microsite · no accounts · collects no data · runs entirely in your browser
Recolour the world by any dimension of marriage, then travel through the history of marriage itself.
What it does
Ten perspectives, one world
Recolour the globe by divorce rate, children per woman, share of adults married, marriage rate, age at first marriage, minimum legal age, child marriage, marriages per person, polygamy or same-sex marriage — the legend adapts to each.
Every country, profiled
Click any of 223 countries & territories for its full marriage profile — every metric at once — plus a live ranked list of the highest and lowest on the metric you're viewing.
The history of marriage
152 milestones, 3000 BCE → today: the first written marriage law, dowry and bride-price, civil marriage, women's property rights, no-fault divorce, the end of child marriage, and marriage equality. Click one to see where it first happened.
Marriage age & child marriage
See where the legal floor on marriage sits around the world — and where child marriage still persists, from a colour-coded map and a ranked list.
Global trends
Watch fertility, age at first marriage and divorce shift over time in a global-trends chart — the long arc behind the snapshot on the map.
Globe, flat map, search & share
Spin a 3D globe or switch to a flat map, search any country to fly to it, and copy a link to an exact view — a perspective, a country, a milestone — to share what you found.
About the data
Figures are the latest reliable estimates from UN DESA (World Marriage Data), the OECD Family Database, the World Bank, Pew Research, Our World in Data, Eurostat and national statistical offices. Definitions vary between countries — divorce rates in particular are measured several different ways — so treat cross-country comparisons as indicative, not exact. Legal status of polygamy and same-sex marriage reflects national law (local or religious exceptions exist). Country outlines: Natural Earth (public domain). Globe: globe.gl.