Female genital mutilation prevalence
Percentage of women aged 15–49 who have gone through partial or total removal of the female external genitalia or other injury to the female genital organs for cultural or other non-therapeutic reasons.
- Publisher
- World Bank
- Unit
- —
- Cadence
- Annual
- Series
- 30
- Licence
- CC BY 4.0
- Updated
- 2026-09-06
Provenance
Who produced these figures, as World Bank declares it — not inferred, and each line says which published field it was read from.
Produced by
UNICEF
UNICEF DATA, UN Children's Fund (UNICEF), uri: https://sdmx.data.unicef.org/overview.html, note: Indicator code from the original source: PT_F_15-49_FGM; Indicator name from the original source: Percentage of girls and women (aged 15-49 years) who have undergone female genital mutilation (FGM), type: API, date accessed: 2023-12-07
declared by worldbank in sourceOrganization
Demographic & Health Surveys
Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS), Multiple Indicator Cluster Surveys (MICS) and other surverys, Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) Program, uri: https://sdmx.data.unicef.org/overview.html, note: Indicator code from the original source: PT_F_15-49_FGM; Indicator name from the original source: Percentage of girls and women (aged 15-49 years) who have undergone female genital mutilation (FGM), publisher: The DHS Program (ICF), type: API, date accessed: 2023-12-07
declared by worldbank in sourceOrganization
Demographic & Health Surveys
DHS API, Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) Program, uri: https://api.dhsprogram.com/#/index.html, note: Indicator code from the original source: PT_F_15-49_FGM; Indicator name from the original source: Percentage of girls and women (aged 15-49 years) who have undergone female genital mutilation (FGM), date accessed: 2023-12-07
declared by worldbank in sourceOrganization
Read from
World Bank
World Development Indicators
declared by worldbank in source
Latest observations
| Country | Period | Value | Unit |
|---|---|---|---|
| Senegal | 2023 | 20.10 | percent |
| Kenya | 2022 | 14.80 | percent |
| Tanzania, United Republic of | 2022 | 8.20 | percent |
| Burkina Faso | 2021 | 56.10 | percent |
| Mauritania | 2021 | 63.90 | percent |
| Nigeria | 2021 | 15.10 | percent |
| Gambia | 2020 | 72.60 | percent |
| Liberia | 2020 | 31.80 | percent |
| Somalia | 2020 | 99.20 | percent |
| Central African Republic | 2019 | 21.60 | percent |
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