![[OC] The Evolution of Age at Marriage in Mexico (1995–2025)](https://www.byteseu.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/afy4p82rtmwh1-819x1024.png "[OC] The Evolution of Age at Marriage in Mexico (1995–2025)")
Hello!
This post features two ridgeline charts illustrating the evolution of age at marriage in Mexico, one for males and one for females, from 1995 to 2025, at three-year intervals. The data are based exclusively on civil marriage records.
Each ridge represents the distribution of marriage ages for a given year, allowing us to compare how these distributions have shifted over time. The ridges extend from the minimum to the maximum age observed in the data for each year, showing the full observed range of the distribution.
You may notice that both the mean and median ages at marriage have increased substantially for males and females, while the number of marriages has peaked and subsequently declined.
Population ageing, behavioural changes, and rising living costs may contribute to these trends. While the charts cannot establish the causes behind these changes, they provide a visual overview of how marriage ages have shifted over time.
I hope you find it interesting!
Data source: https://www.inegi.org.mx/programas/emat/#microdatos
The full source data and cleaned dataset are available here: https://figshare.com/articles/dataset/Civil_Marriage_Records_in_Mexico_1993-2025_/34335813
The charts were created using the Plotly library for Python.
Posted by -Montse-
10 Comments
What’s the theory behind small uptick in marriages among men at the age of 60?
Interesting and sad because its not just behavioural changes, those are minor compared to rising living costs
Erm – is that 12 on the left-end of the distribution in 1995?
I like how the age difference remains around 3 years
Cool plots! Maybe an additional slide showing 1995 and 2025 overlayed for each sex?
huge change in age of women to a new norm between 2013 and 2016 isn’t reflected in men. That’s interesting
I’ve been doing research for 10 years on my families ancestry from Mexico. I have a great-great grandfather Urbano Moraza who was married for like 46 years to his wife Clara (whom he married at 20 years old) then remarried within the same year she passed away lol. He was 66 at the time. And then STILL popped out two more kids on top of the 12 kids he had from the first marriage.
https://preview.redd.it/tmye1wx7vnwh1.png?width=601&format=png&auto=webp&s=2a9403acb81cb55e0ed3c43fe66c60cb06632b9c
My grandfather (his grandson) is actually cheating on my grandmother and he is 86 years old. Crazy.
Ooh, there’s a bump at 60. Maybe there’s hope for me yet!
edit: oh, Mexico, completely missed that bit. Back to the bachelor life for me.
Marrying off a 15 year old is child trafficking
Is this the mean and median age of first marriage? Or the mean and median age of marriage. If it’s the latter, I imagine it could be partially explained by the divorce and remarriage age. The former would be more interesting if a stat.