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Legal ages for marriage is 21 years for both sexes. Exemptions: 16 years for females, 18 for males with parents’ or guardian’s consent.<ref name="Unicef Lesotho" /><br> | Legal ages for marriage is 21 years for both sexes. Exemptions: 16 years for females, 18 for males with parents’ or guardian’s consent.<ref name="Unicef Lesotho" /><br> | ||
44.5 percent of children under the age of 5 had their | 44.5 percent of children under the age of 5 had their births registered in 2018. 38 percent of the deaths were registered in 2019.<ref>Rachel Ort, Public Sector Specialist, World Bank, and Tumelo Raboletsi, Principal Secretary, Ministry of Home Affairs, Lesotho, [https://blogs.worldbank.org/governance/national-id-lesotho-putting-citizens-center "National ID in Lesotho is putting citizens at the center"], World Bank Blogs, February 22, 2021, (accessed 6 December 2021).</ref> | ||
==Information Recorded in the Records== | ==Information Recorded in the Records== | ||