Journal of Population Sciences
Table 2 Mean age at childbearing and singulate mean age at marriage by selected sub-Saharan countries
From: Adult mortality in sub-Saharan Africa using 2001—2009 census data: does estimation method matter?
Census year | Mean age at child bearing (M) | Singulate mean age at marriage (SMAM) | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Country | Male | Female | Male | Female | |
Cameroon | 2005 | 34.0 | 26.4 | 27.6 | 21.9 |
Kenya | 2009 | 32.0 | 26.7 | 26.8 | 22.4 |
Liberia | 2008 | 33.4 | 28.9 | 26.7 | 22.3 |
Mali | 2009 | 35.6 | 29.4 | 26.4 | 19.5 |
Sierra Leone | 2004 | 36.1 | 28.6 | 26.8 | 19.7 |
South Africa | 2001 | 32.1 | 27.1 | 30.9 | 28.1 |
South Sudan | 2008 | 34.7 | 28.5 | 32.9 | 20.4 |
Sudan | 2008 | 34.5 | 28.3 | 27.9 | 21.7 |
Tanzania | 2002 | 33.0 | 27.2 | 25.7 | 21.0 |
Uganda | 2002 | 30.2 | 25.7 | 23.9 | 20.1 |