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the average annual personal income for college educated women in their mid 30s who married after age 30 is $ 50415 compared with $ 32263 for college educated women of the same age who married before age 20 a 56 percent difference the average age of first birth for this group is lower than the average marriage age for women who dropped out of high school the average age of first birth is 20 while the average marriage age is 25 83 percent of first births in this demographic are to unmarried mothers marriage in the colonies the average age of a women who married for the first time rose steadily although not sharply from 1800 to 1900 north american colonists tended to get married early due to several factors the first and perhaps most important was simply that they could in 1890 when the u s census bureau started collecting marriage data it was recorded that the average age of a first marriage for men was 26 years and the average age of marriage for women was 22 years college educated women are unlikely to have a child before getting married for college educated women the average age of first birth 30 has risen along with the average age of marriage 27 only 12 percent of births by college graduates are to unmarried women the average age of first birth for this group is lower than the average marriage age for women who dropped out of high school the average age of first birth is 20 while the average marriage age is 25 83 percent of first births in this demographic are to unmarried mothers the following table shows the median age of men and women when they were first married in the united states from 1890 to 2010 the median age for a man s first marriage was 28 2 years in 2010 up from 26 1 in 1990 the median age for a woman s first marriage was 26 1 years in 2010 up from 23 9 in 1990  image caption on average men and women get married five years later in life than their counterparts 20 years ago the average age of brides in northern ireland has risen to 32 while the average for men getting married is now 34 according to new figures the details were released by the northern ireland statistics and research agency nisra nbc americans are getting married later and later the average age of first marriage in the united states is 27 for women and 29 for men up from 23 for women and 26 for men in 1990 and 20 and 22 in 1960 the average age of first birth for this group is lower than the average marriage age for women who dropped out of high school the average age of first birth is 20 while the average marriage age is 25 83 percent of first births in this demographic are to unmarried mothers if you feel you re getting married later than your parents did you re right by about 6 years later on average according to the us census bureau the median age of first marriages in 1970 was 22 5 years for men and for 20 6 years for women the age distribution has also changed significantly over the last 40 years in 1970 believe it or not 42 % of women married as teens under 20 and 88 % of all woman were married by age 24 these numbers had dropped drastically by 2009 with only 7 % of women under 20 married and 38 % of woman the average age for americans getting married has reached a historic high 27 for women and 29 for men a jump from the 1990 average marrying age of 23 for women and 26 for men  follow comments the average age at which a woman gets married for the first time climbed from 29 9 years in 2008 to 30 years in 2009 figures published by the office for national statistics said this is the first time that the symbolic age barrier has been reached
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