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How many women worldwide are in their childbearing years?
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There are nearly 1.6 billion women worldwide between the ages of 15 and 44.[1] In the United States alone, there are about 62 million.[2]
At what age do Americans have sex for the first time?
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On average, Americans have sex for the first time at age 17.[3,4]
At what age do most Americans get married?
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The median age at first marriage is 28 for men and 26 for women.[5]
How common is premarital sex in the United States?
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By age 44, 95% of Americans have had premarital sex.[6] The vast majority of Americans have sex before marriage—including those who abstained from sex during their teenage years—and this has been the case for decades. Even among women who were born in the 1940s, nearly nine in 10 had sex before marriage.
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