World Bank · Gender
Men who believe that female genital mutilation should not be continued
Percentage of men who have heard about female genital mutilation and think the practice should end.
- Coverage
- 18 of 251 countries
- Latest data
- 2023
- Series
- 18
- Unit
- percent
- Licence
- CC BY 4.0
- Retrieved
- 2026-11-08
- Indicator
- men-who-believe-that-female-genital-mutilation-should
- Interva ID
- worldbank-men-who-believe-that-female-genital-mutilation-should
Recency
current
data to 2023; catalog to 2025
Provenance
4 steps
as the publisher declares it
Versions
1
catalog snapshots
Citation
BibTeX + CSL
versioned permalink
Quality profile
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Recency
100%Latest observation is 2023; the catalog broadly reports to 2025, so this data is 2 year(s) behind (current).
Method: Compares the dataset's latest non-projected period with the year most datasets in the catalog end in. Up to 2 years behind is current — annual data is routinely published a year or two late — and more than 5 is stale. Measured from the data, not from when Interva last crawled it.
Temporal completeness
27%12 of 18 series skip at least one year inside their own span; the median series reports 27% of its years.
Method: Per series, years present divided by years from its first to its last observation; the median across series is reported. Annual periods are assumed, which holds for every series in the catalog today.
Geographic coverage
MeasuredCovers 18 of the 251 countries in the catalog.
Method: Counts distinct geographies with at least one observation. Not scored: a regional dataset covering its region completely is not deficient for omitting the rest of the world.
History depth
MeasuredThe median series has 2 observations; the earliest begins in 1995.
Method: Counts non-projected observations per series. Not scored: a long history is useful for trend work and irrelevant for a cross-section.
Revisions
MeasuredNo observation has been restated in any vintage Interva has recorded.
Method: Counts values the publisher changed between Interva's publishes. Not scored: revising estimates is ordinary and often a sign of care, and the count is here so a reader citing a figure knows whether it moves.
Schema conformity
Not assessedNo declared schema or validation rules are attached to this dataset yet.
Validity
Not assessedNo field-level validation rules are attached to this dataset yet.
Consistency
Not assessedCross-series consistency rules are not defined yet. The obvious first one — whether two publishers measuring one concept agree within a stated tolerance — is a candidate.
2 scored from the data, 3 described without a score, 3 not assessed. Pipeline integrity: all 5 checks pass. Assessed 2026-11-15.
By country
Men who believe that female genital mutilation should not be continued for each of the 18 countries it covers, with the full history.
- Benin 2001–2012
- Burkina Faso 1999–2021
- Cameroon 2004–2004
- Chad 2004–2004
- Côte d'Ivoire 1999–2012
- Eritrea 1995–1995
- Ethiopia 2016–2016
- Gambia 2020–2020
- Guinea 1999–2018
- Kenya 2014–2022
- Mali 2001–2018
- Mauritania 2001–2021
- Niger 1998–2006
- Nigeria 2003–2013
- Senegal 2005–2023
- Sierra Leone 2008–2013
- Tanzania, United Republic of 2005–2022
- Togo 2014–2014
Latest observations
| Country | Period | Value | Unit |
|---|---|---|---|
| Senegal | 2023 | 66 | percent |
| Kenya | 2022 | 91.90 | percent |
| Tanzania, United Republic of | 2022 | 96 | percent |
| Burkina Faso | 2021 | 81.10 | percent |
| Mauritania | 2021 | 25.80 | percent |
| Gambia | 2020 | 42.40 | percent |
| Senegal | 2019 | 78.30 | percent |
| Guinea | 2018 | 31.80 | percent |
| Mali | 2018 | 12.90 | percent |
| Senegal | 2018 | 77.20 | percent |
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
Not named — the declaration is kept verbatim
UNICEF DATA (http://www.data.unicef.org/)
declared by worldbank in sourceOrganization
Demographic & Health Surveys
Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS)
declared by worldbank in sourceOrganization
MICS
Multiple Indicator Cluster Surveys (MICS), and other surveys.
declared by worldbank in sourceOrganization
Read from
World Bank
Gender Statistics
declared by worldbank in source
Versions
A vintage is a dated publish of the catalog. The current entry is a catalog snapshot; checksums are not recorded yet and are shown as such.
- CurrentCurrent catalog snapshotchecksum not recorded
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Citation
Version: catalog snapshot 2026-11-08. The record labels this as a catalog snapshot because immutable dataset releases are not stored yet.
World Bank (2026). Men who believe that female genital mutilation should not be continued. Interva. https://interva.co/dataset/worldbank-men-who-believe-that-female-genital-mutilation-should (accessed 2026-11-15). catalog snapshot 2026-11-08.
@misc{interva-worldbank-men-who-believe-that-female-genital-mutilation-should,
title = {Men who believe that female genital mutilation should not be continued},
author = {World Bank},
year = {2026},
howpublished = {\url{https://interva.co/dataset/worldbank-men-who-believe-that-female-genital-mutilation-should}},
note = {Interva dataset worldbank-men-who-believe-that-female-genital-mutilation-should; catalog snapshot 2026-11-08},
urldate = {2026-11-15}
}DOI: not assigned (not assigned). The permalink is versioned by catalog snapshot; a stable dataset DOI is a later step.
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