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The Marriage topic legal frameworks score measures laws related to marriage and divorce because equal rights in marriage and divorce are critical to a woman’s agency, financial security, and health. It is divided into four indicators. It is calculated as the unweighted average of the indicator scores in the topic and rescaled to a 0–100 scale, where 0 represents the lowest possible score and 100 the highest possible score. For details on underlying questions and scoring assumptions, please refer to the WBL Methodology Handbook (link: https://wbl.worldbank.org/content/dam/sites/wbl/documents/2026/WBL-Methodology-Handbook-2026-FINAL.pdf).
As of 2025, Albania ranks first with 100.0, followed by Angola (100.0) and Antigua and Barbuda (100.0).
The top two are virtually level: Albania and Angola differ by less than 1%.
Across 188 countries and territories, values run from 100.0 (Albania) to 0.0 (Yemen), with a median of 100.0.
By region, the top 10 is made up of 3 from the Americas, 3 from Europe, 2 from Asia, 1 from Africa and 1 from Oceania.
Source: World Bank Open Data — WBL: Legal Framework, Marriage, Score (scale 0-100), 2025. Unit: scale 0-100.
Source: World Bank Open Data — WBL: Legal Framework, Marriage, Score (scale 0-100) · CC BY 4.0 · fetched Oct 17, 2026