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Table 2 Adolescent sexual activity - 'ever-married' and 'all women' (married and unmarried)

From: Adolescent fertility and family planning in East Asia and the Pacific: a review of DHS reports

Country and survey year

Median age first marriage, females aged

25-49 (years)

Proportion females aged

15-19 currently married (%)

Median age sexual debut, females aged

25-49 (years)

Proportion females aged

25-49 sexual debut <15 years (%)

Proportion females aged

15-19 currently sexually active (%)

Proportion females aged

15-19 ever had sex (%)

'Ever-married women'

      

   Indonesia, 2007

19.8

12.8

19.7

1.3

n/a

n/a

   Timor-Leste, 2003

21.4

11.2

20.7

-

n/a

n/a

   Vietnam, 2002

21.1

4.1

-

-

n/a

n/a

'All women'

      

   Cambodia, 2005

20.1

9.8

20.4

2.0

8.3

10.8

   Marshall Islands, 2007

19.6

1.2

17.3

11.6

29.3

64.5

   Nauru, 2007

21.2

6.3

17.9

12.3

23.4

49.0

   Papua New Guinea, 1996

19.9

18.2

-

-

-

-

   Philippines, 2003

22.0

3.9

21.9

3.0

6.7

10.1

   Samoa, 2009

23.6‡

2.7

-

-

-

-

   Solomon Islands, 2007

19.9

9.7

18.2

12.1

21.2

51.9

   Tuvalu, 2007

22.1

8.0

21.7†

0.5

9.1

14.2

  1. †Includes women aged 20-49
  2. ‡Samoa reports 'Singulate Mean Age at Marriage'