What age do Arab men get married?

In most Arabic countries there is a minimum age for grooms and brides, which is 18 years old. For example, citizens of Tunisia can get married at 18 according to the law, but the average age of brides is 25 and grooms are 30.

How many women can an Arab man marry?

Traditional Sunni and Shia Islamic marital jurisprudence allows Muslim men to be married to multiple women (a practice known as polygyny and polygamy)—up to four at any point in time.

At what age do girls get married in Saudi Arabia?

Later that same year, the Saudi Ministry of Justice proposes to introduce new regulations setting 16 as the minimum age of marriage for girls.

What is the average age of marriage in Saudi Arabia?

One of the interesting results of the survey was the fact that majority of Saudi men prefer to get married at the age of 25.3 years, while the average age of Saudi women marrying for the first time was 20.4 years old.

What is the legal age for marriage in Saudi Arabia?

18 During the 20th century, sharia-based legislation in most countries in the Middle East followed the Ottoman precedent in defining the age of competence, while raising the minimum age to 15 or 16 for boys and 13–16 for girls. In 2019 Saudi Arabia raised the age of marriage to 18.