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Unfortunately, the original version of this article was published online with errors in the captions for Figures 1, 2, and 3, as well as in Table 3. The captions for Figures 1, 2, and 3 were swapped and corrected captions are shown below. Figure 1 caption should be Location of Lesotho (South Africa Gateway, 2017) Figure 2 caption should be Percentage of grooms<5 older than brides, same age or younger; Sub-Saharan Africa. (Calculated from latest Demographic and Health Surveys, post 2010 (MeasureDHS, 2024) Figure 3 caption should be Map of Lesotho with sample parishes (see Table 1 for parish names and numbers) For Table 3, please see below the corrected formatting issue. (Table presented.) Female mean age of first marriage, age gap between spouses and calculated Girlpower-Index for historical and contemporary Lesotho by district. (Contemporary Lesotho uses pooled four survey sample) Leribe 19.5 19.2 20.8 21.1 21.3 20.5 19.9 Mafeteng 20.1 21.5 21.9 23.2 23.0 22.3 21.5 19.5 Maseru 19.5 20.2 21.2 22.2 22.1 21.1 20.6 20.5 Mohales Hoek 19.7 23.1 21.2 22.1 26.7 23.3 20.1 18.9 Quthing 19.8 20.2 21.6 22.2 21.9 22.1 19.6 Leribe 5.5 5.8 5.8 5.7 5.7 6.1 5.4 Mafeteng 4.6 5.2 4.4 5.3 5.3 6.1 6.5 5.6 Maseru 5.5 5.5 4.3 4.6 5.7 5.4 6.5 5.0 Mohales Hoek 5.2 6.7 5.6 6.1 6.6 6.6 8.8 6.0 Quthing 5.0 5.2 3.8 4.6 4.8 5.4 6.4 Leribe 14.0 13.4 14.9 15.3 15.6 14.5 14.5 Mafeteng 15.5 16.3 17.5 17.9 17.7 16.3 14.9 13.9 Maseru 14.0 14.7 16.9 17.6 16.4 15.7 14.1 15.5 Mohales Hoek 14.5 16.4 15.6 16.0 20.0 16.7 11.3 12.9 Quthing 14.8 15.0 17.7 17.6 17.1 16.7 13.2 The original article has been corrected.
| Original language | British English |
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| Article number | 3 |
| Journal | Canadian Studies in Population |
| Volume | 53 |
| Issue number | 1 |
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| State | Published - Dec 2026 |
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