世界各地的人們什麼時候結婚
Map by Priceonomics; data from the United Nations World Marriage Data 2015
該示意圖由Priceonomics提供；數據源自於2015年聯合國世界婚姻數據庫
Every year, parents have more and more reason toask their children when they plan to get married.
每年，父母都有越來越多的理由，詢問孩子打算什麼時候結婚。
This is the case around the world, becausemarrying later than the previous generation is a global trend. People aregetting married later—or not at all.
這一現象全世界都有，因爲年輕人比上一代結婚晚已成爲一種全球趨勢。人們結婚越來越晚，有的人甚至不結婚。
Yet this similarity co-exists with differentmarriage practices that can make people’s lives vary tremendously from countryto country. In particular, which country you live in can impact how long youspend living single by as much as a decade.
不同國家由於婚姻習俗不同，人們的生活差異也會很大，但他們都存在晚婚這一類似現象。你所居住的國家會影響你單身的時間長度，最長甚至可達十年。
Yet the data still captures the fact that peopleenter marriage—a central institution for most of us—at different periods intheir lives.
然而，這些數據仍然反映出，人們在不同的人生階段步入婚姻——我們大多數人都以此爲生活中心。
To make the above table and map, we averaged theage at which men and women get married in each country. But this hides animportant dynamic: that men marry later than women. In this data set—which doesnot include a number of poorer countries—men in each country marry 3.7 yearslater than women.
爲製作以上圖表和示意圖，我們算出來每個國家男性和女性的平均結婚年齡。但這隱含着極爲重要的動向：男性結婚晚於女性。該數據集——不包含許多貧窮的國家，反映出各國男性結婚比女性結婚要晚3.7年。
This gender gap exists in every country. It islarger in poorer countries like Egypt,where women marry 5 years earlier than men. In richer countries like France,the gap is only 1.6 years.
每個國家結婚年齡在性別上都存在這樣的差異。像在埃及這些稍微窮點的國家，結婚年齡在性別上的差異更大，其女性比男性結婚要早五年之久。像在法國這些富裕點的國家，結婚年齡在性別上的差異僅1.6年。
It remains common for women to marry very youngin some countries. According to U.N. reports, 39 countries have data showingthat 20% of women married by age 18. In twenty countries, a full 10% of womenmarried by age 15. In only 2 countries, however, are 10% of men married beforethe age of 18.
在一些國家，女性結婚很早仍然非常普遍。據聯合國（U.N.）報道，有三十九個國家的數據顯示，其20%的婦女結婚年齡爲十八歲。有二十個國家，結婚年齡在十五歲的女性足足佔10%。然而，有且僅有兩個國家，在十八歲之前結婚的男性佔到了10%。
Despite different and changing practices aroundthe world, shacking up is still the norm.
儘管世界各國不同的婚姻習俗，儘管這些習俗在不斷變化，但同居關係仍是普遍現象。
