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GermanyConsent: 14, with some restrictions.Marriage: 18, minors (16-17) can marry with parental and court consent.Buy tobacco: 18, raised from 16 in 2007.Buy alcohol: 16 for beer, wine and drinks ...

Using data from the United Nations, Age of Consent and Girls Not Brides, Newsweek has compiled a map that looks at the different marriage and consent laws across the world.. In many countries, the ...

Nine countries put the age of consent at 15: Croatia, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Greece, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia and Sweden. A sexual act with a person under this age is considered rape.

The age of consent for sex is different in different countries. India has set 18 as the age of consent, whereas it is 16 in Britain and 14 in Germany and China.

While the age of consent across the world ranges from 13 to 18, the bulk of the countries, including the most liberal ones, have it at 16. Thus, India is currently bracketed with Britain, Norway ...

In the U.S., laws to define consent and the age of consent are different in every state. The national average age is 16. In Arkansas, the age of consent is 15, while in Oregon, ...

Japanese lawmakers implemented regulation Friday that raises the national age of consent from 13 to 16 and rewrites how the country defines sex crimes. The change was long sought by members of the ...

The decision to establish an age of consent in the country for the first time follows two cases involving men who had escaped rape charges despite intercourse with 11-year-old girls.