Table 1 Age at which FGM occurs by Country.
From: Estimating excess mortality due to female genital mutilation
Country | Age groups | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
0–4 | 5–9 | 10–14 | 15–19 | 20–24 | 25+ | Total | Women/girls Circumcised (%) | |
Benin | 32.7 | 56.6 | 9 | 1.6 | 0.1 | 0 | 478 | 7.3 |
Burkina Faso | 59.8 | 36 | 3.6 | 0.5 | 0 | 0 | 3610 | 75.8 |
Cameroon | 57.4 | 36 | 6.6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 18 | 1.4 |
Chad | 12.1 | 58.5 | 27.4 | 1.8 | 0.2 | 0 | 898 | 38.4 |
Cote D’Ivoire | 50.9 | 32.5 | 14.3 | 2.3 | 0 | 0 | 357 | 38.2 |
Egypt | 0.7 | 5.2 | 29.9 | 56.5 | 0 | 0 | – | 92.3 |
Ethiopia | 64.8 | 21 | 10.3 | 3.7 | 0.3 | 0 | 6615 | 65.2 |
Guinea | 18.7 | 64.2 | 15.9 | 1.1 | 0 | 0 | 5081 | 94.5 |
Kenya | 2.9 | 42 | 38.3 | 16.4 | 0.4 | 0 | 971 | 21 |
Mali | 77.8 | 18.3 | 3.6 | 0.2 | 0 | 0 | 9866 | 88.6 |
Niger | 69.1 | 22.3 | 7.3 | 1.4 | 0 | 0 | 298 | 2 |
Nigeria | 92.6 | 3.9 | 1.4 | 1.5 | 0.5 | 0.1 | 4138 | 19.5 |
Senegal | 83.3 | 14.1 | 2.3 | 0.2 | 0 | 0 | 1745 | 25.2 |
Sierra Leone | 0.3 | 4.8 | 16.7 | 61.2 | 0 | 0 | – | 83 |
Tanzania | 34.5 | 26.2 | 26.1 | 12.5 | 0.6 | 0 | 727 | 10 |
Total | 68.1 | 20.2 | 8.4 | 3.0 | 0.3 | 0.0 | 100 (34802) | – |
