Prevalence

FGC Around the World:

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Estimates based on survey data suggest that worldwide between 100 million and 140 million girls and women alive today have undergone some form of FGM and that about 3 million do so every year. The procedure is generally carried out on girls under the age of 15 years, although obtaining data on FGM prevalence in that age group poses several methodological challenges, not least of which is ascertaining if and how the procedure was carried out. (2) Recent surveys have found that in Egypt 90% of girls who had undergone FGM were between five and 14 years of age when subjected to the procedure, 50% of those in Ethiopia, Mali and Mauritania were under five years of age, and 76% of those in the Yemen were not more than two weeks old. In some communities, women who are about to be married or are pregnant with their first child or who have just given birth also undergo the practice.

Most women who have experienced FGM live in one of the 28 countries in Africa or the Middle East where FGM is practised—nearly half of them in just two countries, Egypt and Ethiopia. The 28 countries span the continent in a belt running from Senegal on the west coast of Africa to Ethiopia and Somalia in the east, where Egypt juts to the north and Kenya and United Republic of Tanzania extend to the south. Recent survey data, available for 18 of these countries, show the prevalence of FGM to range from 5% to 97% of the female population (Figure 1).(2,3)

Some communities on the Red Sea coast of Yemen are also known to practise FGM and reportedly, though to a limited extent, FGM is also practised in Jordan, Oman, the Palestinian Territories (Gaza) and in certain Kurdish communities in Iraq. The practice has also been reported among population groups in India, Indonesia and Malaysia.
FGM is also practised among immigrant communities throughout the world. Families from Benin, Chad, Guinea, Mali, Niger and Senegal tend to migrate to France, where they continue the practice, whereas those from Kenya, Nigeria and Uganda generally settle in the United Kingdom. In the 1970s, refugees fleeing war and civil unrest in Eritrea, Ethiopia and Somalia brought FGM to several countries of Western Europe, including Norway, Sweden and Switzerland. Canada and the USA in North America, and Australia and New Zealand in Australasia also host women and children who have been subjected to FGM.

Reference:

(1) WHO, http://www.who.int/reproductive-health/fgm/prevalence.htm