Age of Majority by Country 2025

	Country	Age of Majority↓
	Madagascar	21
	Ivory Coast	21
	Cameroon	21
	Niger	21
	Zambia	21
	Chad	21
	United Arab Emirates	21
	Honduras	21
	Kuwait	21
	Puerto Rico	21
	Gabon	21
	Lesotho	21
	Eswatini	21
	Samoa	21
	Grenada	21
	Thailand	20
	New Zealand	20
	South Korea	19
	Algeria	19
	India	18
	China	18
	United States	18
	Pakistan	18
	Nigeria	18
	Brazil	18
	Bangladesh	18
	Russia	18
	Ethiopia	18
	Mexico	18
	Japan	18
	Egypt	18
	Philippines	18
	DR Congo	18
	Iran	18
	Turkey	18
	Germany	18
	Tanzania	18
	United Kingdom	18
	France	18
	South Africa	18
	Italy	18
	Kenya	18
	Colombia	18
	Sudan	18
	Uganda	18
	Spain	18
	Iraq	18
	Argentina	18
	Afghanistan	18
	Canada	18
	Angola	18
	Ukraine	18
	Morocco	18
	Poland	18
	Uzbekistan	18
	Malaysia	18
	Mozambique	18
	Ghana	18
	Peru	18
	Saudi Arabia	18
	Nepal	18
	Venezuela	18
	Australia	18
	Syria	18
	Mali	18
	Burkina Faso	18
	Sri Lanka	18
	Taiwan	18
	Malawi	18
	Kazakhstan	18
	Chile	18
	Somalia	18
	Senegal	18
	Romania	18
	Guatemala	18
	Netherlands	18
	Ecuador	18
	Zimbabwe	18
	Guinea	18
	Benin	18
	Rwanda	18
	Burundi	18
	Bolivia	18
	Tunisia	18
	South Sudan	18
	Haiti	18
	Belgium	18
	Jordan	18
	Dominican Republic	18
	Tajikistan	18
	Papua New Guinea	18
	Sweden	18
	Czechia	18
	Portugal	18
	Azerbaijan	18
	Greece	18
	Togo	18
	Hungary	18
	Israel	18
	Austria	18
	Belarus	18
	Switzerland	18
	Laos	18
	Libya	18
	Hong Kong	18
	Kyrgyzstan	18
	Paraguay	18
	Nicaragua	18
	Bulgaria	18
	Serbia	18
	Republic of the Congo	18
	El Salvador	18
	Denmark	18
	Singapore	18
	Lebanon	18
	Finland	18
	Norway	18
	Palestine	18
	Central African Republic	18
	Oman	18
	Slovakia	18
	Mauritania	18
	Ireland	18
	Costa Rica	18
	Panama	18
	Croatia	18
	Georgia	18
	Eritrea	18
	Mongolia	18
	Uruguay	18
	Bosnia and Herzegovina	18
	Qatar	18
	Namibia	18
	Moldova	18
	Armenia	18
	Jamaica	18
	Lithuania	18
	Albania	18
	Botswana	18
	Guinea-Bissau	18
	Slovenia	18
	Equatorial Guinea	18
	Latvia	18
	North Macedonia	18
	Bahrain	18
	Trinidad and Tobago	18
	Cyprus	18
	Estonia	18
	Mauritius	18
	Djibouti	18
	Fiji	18
	Comoros	18
	Solomon Islands	18
	Guyana	18
	Bhutan	18
	Macau	18
	Luxembourg	18
	Montenegro	18
	Malta	18
	Maldives	18
	Cape Verde	18
	Brunei	18
	Belize	18
	Bahamas	18
	Iceland	18
	Vanuatu	18
	Barbados	18
	Sao Tome and Principe	18
	Saint Lucia	18
	Seychelles	18
	Micronesia	18
	Jersey	18
	Tonga	18
	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	18
	Antigua and Barbuda	18
	Isle of Man	18
	Andorra	18
	Dominica	18
	Guernsey	18
	Faroe Islands	18
	Greenland	18
	Saint Kitts and Nevis	18
	Liechtenstein	18
	Gibraltar	18
	Monaco	18
	San Marino	18
	Palau	18
	Nauru	18
	Vatican City	18
	North Korea	17
	Timor-Leste	17
	Vietnam	16
	Myanmar	16
	Cambodia	16
	Cuba	16
	Indonesia	15
	Yemen	15

Country

Age of Majority↓

Republic of the Congo

Central African Republic

Bosnia and Herzegovina

Sao Tome and Principe

Saint Vincent and the Grenadines

Saint Kitts and Nevis

The age of majority is the age when a child becomes an adult under the laws of that country. The age of majority may differ within a country for when a child becomes an adult regarding criminal charges and when a child can get married or obtain other rights of an adult.