The best age to get married, have a child, retire

The Pew Research Center asked people around the world on the best age to cross some of the major stages of life and found interesting averages. In addition to the United States, surveys were carried out in Argentina, Bangladesh, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ghana, India, Indonesia, Kenya, Mexico, Nigeria, Peru, Philippines, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Tunisia and Turkey. Figures on four key questions:

• Marriage: Most of them put the mid -1920s as the best age to get married, the extremes being 21.2 in Bangladesh and 28.9 in Argentina.

• Mother: The mid -1920s was also the average response of the best age to become a parent, with extremes of 23.5 in Bangladesh and 29.8 in Tunisia.
• Purchase at home: He had the most variance, people in Brazil putting the best age to buy a house at 24.9 on the bottom and the inhabitants of Ghana at 36.3.
• Retirement: Generally, most people thought that the late 1950s was the best age to retire, with extremes at 52.1 in Colombia and 62.7 in Nigeria.
• Americans: On average, people in the United States have put 26.5 as the best age to get married, 27.3 to become a parent, 28.8 to buy a house and 61.8 to retire.

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