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Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka Marriage, divorce and children Stats

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STAT AMOUNT DATE RANK HISTORY
Contraception use among married women > Any method 68.4% 2007 8th out of 32
Contraception use among married women > Any method > Percentage 68.4% 2007 8th out of 32
Contraception use among married women > Condom 5.7% 2007 11th out of 29
Contraception use among married women > Condom > Percentage 5.7% 2007 11th out of 29
Contraception use among married women > Modern methods 52.5% 2007 9th out of 32
Contraception use among married women > Modern methods > Percentage 52.5% 2007 9th out of 32
Marriageable age > Females 18 2014 7th out of 32
Marriageable age > Males 18 2014 12th out of 32
Marriageable age > Notes However, the parties must have a Quazi's permission to marry before contracting into marriage if they are Muslims. 2014
Minimum legal marrying age > With parental consent > For Women 16 2001
Teen marriage rate > Women 9.2 2007 16th out of 24
Total divorces 2,212 1979 50th out of 85
Total divorces per thousand people 0.153 1979 79th out of 79
Women denied family planning 7.3% 2007 18th out of 18
Years spent single before marriage > Females 25.3 years 1993 1st out of 3

SOURCES: United Nations Statistics Division. Source tables; United Nations Statistics Division; United Nations Statistics Division. Source tables; United Nations Statistics Division. Source tables; Wikipedia: Marriageable age (Africa); Wikipedia: Marriageable age (South America); United Nations Statistics Division. Source tables; United Nations Statistics Division. Source tables; United Nations Statistics Division. Source tables; United Nations Statistics Division. Source tables. Population figures from World Bank: (1) United Nations Population Division. World Population Prospects, (2) United Nations Statistical Division. Population and Vital Statistics Report (various years), (3) Census reports and other statistical publications from national statistical offices, (4) Eurostat: Demographic Statistics, (5) Secretariat of the Pacific Community: Statistics and Demography Programme, and (6) U.S. Census Bureau: International Database.; United Nations Statistics Division. Source tables; United Nations Statistics Division. Source tables

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