Arab Region | Proportion of girls and women aged 15-49 years who have undergone female genital mutilation-cutting (Arab countries, 1990–2020)
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
Arab Development Portal
Origin
Arab Region
Records
22
Source
Arab Region | Proportion of girls and women aged 15-49 years who have undergone female genital mutilation-cutting (Arab countries, 1990–2020)
| Year | Location |
value
Min
Max
|
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | Iraq | 8.1 |
| 2018 | Iraq | 7.4 |
| 1997 | Yemen | 22.6 |
| 2013 | Yemen | 18.5 |
| 2006 | Somalia | 97.9 |
| 2020 | Somalia | 99.2 |
| 1990 | Sudan | 89.2 |
| 2014 | Sudan | 86.6 |
| 2001 | Mauritania | 71.3 |
| 2007 | Mauritania | 72.2 |
| 2011 | Mauritania | 69.4 |
| 2015 | Mauritania | 66.6 |
| 2020 | Mauritania | 63.9 |
| 2006 | Djibouti | 93.1 |
| 2012 | Djibouti | 94.4 |
| 1995 | Egypt | 97 |
| 2000 | Egypt | 97.3 |
| 2003 | Egypt | 97 |
| 2005 | Egypt | 95.8 |
| 2008 | Egypt | 95.5 |
| 2014 | Egypt | 92.3 |
| 2015 | Egypt | 87.2 |
Arab Region | Proportion of girls and women aged 15-49 years who have undergone female genital mutilation-cutting (Arab countries, 1990–2020)
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
Arab Development Portal
Origin
Arab Region
Records
22
Source