What Is the Average Age of Marriage in Israel? 27.3 for Grooms, 25.1 for Brides

First-time grooms in Israel averaged 27.3 years of age in 2022 and first-time brides 25.1, the Central Bureau of Statistics recorded in its Tu B’Av release of 15 August 2024. The Bureau publishes one mean for grooms and one for brides, and no single figure for both. Both are means at first marriage, drawn from the Population Register.

Figure	What it counts	Period
27.3	Mean age of all grooms marrying for the first time	2022
25.1	Mean age of all brides marrying for the first time	2022
25.2	Mean age of all brides marrying for the first time	2021
27.1	Mean age of Muslim grooms marrying for the first time	2022
23.5	Mean age of Muslim brides marrying for the first time	2022
25.6	Mean age of Jewish brides marrying for the first time	2022
21.8	Mean age of Jewish brides marrying for the first time	1970

Source: Central Bureau of Statistics, media release 253/2024, Tu B’Av data release, 15 August 2024, Table A.

First-time grooms averaged 27.3 and brides 25.1 in 2022

The Central Bureau of Statistics recorded a mean age of 27.3 for all grooms marrying for the first time in 2022, and 25.1 for all brides. The two are published as separate figures, and the Bureau gives no combined mean for grooms and brides together. The brides’ mean is published for three consecutive years:

• All first-time grooms, 2022: 27.3, the same as the mean for Jewish grooms that year.
• All first-time brides, 2022: 25.1.
• All first-time brides, 2021: 25.2.
• All first-time brides, 2020: 24.6.

Each figure covers first marriages only. A remarriage is outside these means.

Jewish grooms averaged 27.5 and brides 25.8 in 2021

Jewish grooms marrying for the first time averaged 27.5 in 2021, and Jewish brides 25.8, the Central Bureau of Statistics recorded. All first-time brides averaged 25.2 in the same year. In 2022 the Jewish means were 27.3 for grooms and 25.6 for brides.

The Jewish brides’ mean sits above the mean for all brides in each of the three years, by 0.6 years in 2020 and 2021 and by 0.5 in 2022.

Muslim brides married at 23.5, Jewish brides at 25.6

Muslim brides marrying for the first time averaged 23.5 in 2022 and Jewish brides 25.6, the Central Bureau of Statistics recorded. Among grooms the two means were 0.2 years apart, 27.1 for Muslim grooms against 27.3 for Jewish grooms. Among brides they were 2.1 years apart.

Group	First-time grooms	First-time brides	Year
Jewish	27.3	25.6	2022
Muslim	27.1	23.5	2022
All groups	27.3	25.1	2022

Source: Central Bureau of Statistics, media release 253/2024, Tu B’Av data release, 15 August 2024, Table A. Means at first marriage.

The gap between grooms and brides is 1.7 years among Jewish couples and 3.6 years among Muslim couples in 2022, on the same Table A.

Jewish brides marry about 4 years later than in 1970

Jewish brides marrying for the first time averaged 21.8 in 1970 and 25.6 in 2022, the Central Bureau of Statistics recorded, and the release describes this as marrying about 4 years later. It describes Jewish grooms as marrying about 2.5 years later than in 1970, similar to Muslim grooms, and Muslim brides as marrying about 3.5 years later.

• Jewish grooms: 25.0 in 1970, 27.3 in 2022.
• Jewish brides: 21.8 in 1970, 25.6 in 2022.
• Muslim grooms: 24.5 in 1970, 27.1 in 2022.
• Muslim brides: 20.1 in 1970, 23.5 in 2022.

No Christian or Druze age at first marriage appears here

The mean ages on this page cover Jewish, Muslim and all first-time grooms and brides. Christian and Druze couples fall inside the all-groups mean, but no separate mean for either group is given here. The same Central Bureau of Statistics release counts couples by religion for 2022, with no age attached to those counts.

• Druze couples married in Israel, 2022: 959, with no mean age given here.
• Christian couples married in Israel, 2022: 762, with no mean age given here.
• Second and later marriages: the release used here gives no mean age. Table 2.23 of the Bureau’s Statistical Abstract 2025 prints separate columns covering all marriages, remarriages included.
• Marriages performed abroad: outside the universe of these means. The release carries a separate count of registrations of marriages contracted abroad.

The total number of couples, and the breakdown by religion, are set out in the record on how many couples marry in Israel.

Every age here is the Bureau’s mean at first marriage

• These are means. Table 2.23 of the Statistical Abstract 2025 also prints medians and a weighted mean at first marriage, and the three are not interchangeable.
• They cover first marriages only. The average age at all marriages, remarriages included, is a different number.
• The universe is marriages registered in the Population Register and performed by authorised religious institutions in Israel, with at least one spouse registered.
• The grooms’ and brides’ means are published separately and may not be averaged into one figure.
• The 1970 comparisons are rounded in the release’s prose; the differences in Table A are 2.3 years for Jewish grooms, 3.8 for Jewish brides and 3.4 for Muslim brides.

Questions readers ask

What is the average age at first marriage for men in Israel?

The Central Bureau of Statistics recorded a mean age of 27.3 for all grooms marrying for the first time in 2022. Jewish grooms averaged the same 27.3, and Muslim grooms 27.1.

What is the average age at first marriage for women in Israel?

The Central Bureau of Statistics recorded a mean age of 25.1 for all brides marrying for the first time in 2022, against 25.2 in 2021 and 24.6 in 2020.

Is there one average marriage age for men and women together?

The Central Bureau of Statistics publishes separate means for grooms and for brides, and no combined mean for both. The two figures for 2022 are 27.3 and 25.1.

How old are Muslim brides in Israel when they first marry?

The Central Bureau of Statistics recorded a mean age of 23.5 for Muslim brides marrying for the first time in 2022, against 20.1 in 1970.

How old are Jewish grooms when they first marry?

The Central Bureau of Statistics recorded a mean age of 27.3 for Jewish grooms marrying for the first time in 2022, 27.5 in 2021 and 26.8 in 2020. The 1970 mean was 25.0.

How old were brides in Israel in 1970?

The Central Bureau of Statistics recorded a mean age at first marriage of 21.8 for Jewish brides and 20.1 for Muslim brides in 1970.

How much later do Jewish brides marry than Muslim brides?

The Central Bureau of Statistics recorded means of 25.6 for Jewish brides and 23.5 for Muslim brides marrying for the first time in 2022, a difference of 2.1 years.

How much older are grooms than brides at first marriage?

The Central Bureau of Statistics recorded a 2022 mean of 27.3 for all first-time grooms and 25.1 for all first-time brides, a difference of 2.2 years between the two means.

Are these averages or medians?

They are means. The Central Bureau of Statistics publishes medians and a weighted mean separately, in Table 2.23 of the Statistical Abstract 2025, and those are different measures.

Do the figures include second marriages?

No. The Central Bureau of Statistics published these means for people marrying for the first time; a mean covering all marriages, remarriages included, is printed in separate columns of Table 2.23.

Do the figures include Israelis who married abroad?

No. The Central Bureau of Statistics counts these means over marriages performed by authorised religious institutions in Israel and registered in the Population Register, and reports registrations of marriages abroad as a separate count.

How many Druze and Christian couples married in Israel in 2022?

The Central Bureau of Statistics recorded 959 Druze couples and 762 Christian couples married in Israel in 2022. The release attaches no mean age to either count.

Which year is the most recent in these figures?

The Central Bureau of Statistics published 2022 figures in its Tu B’Av release of 15 August 2024, alongside 2020, 2021 and the 1970 baseline.

Where do these ages come from?

The Central Bureau of Statistics publishes them from the Population Register, in media release 253/2024 and again in Table 2.23 of the Statistical Abstract of Israel 2025.

Sources

• Central Bureau of Statistics, 2024. Marriages in Israel, Tu B’Av data release. Media release 253/2024, 15 August 2024, Demography and Census Division. https://www.cbs.gov.il/he/mediarelease/DocLib/2024/253/11_24_253b.pdf. Official or primary record (national statistics bureau), in Hebrew.
• Central Bureau of Statistics, 2024. Marriages in Israel, Tu B’Av data release: mean age at first marriage. Media release 253/2024, 15 August 2024, section on age at marriage and Table A, mean age at first marriage by sex and religion, selected years; also Statistical Abstract of Israel 2025, Table 2.23. https://www.cbs.gov.il/he/mediarelease/DocLib/2024/253/11_24_253b.pdf and https://www.cbs.gov.il/he/publications/DocLib/2025/2.ShnatonPopulation/st02_23.pdf. Official or primary record (national statistics bureau), in Hebrew.