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Female genital mutilation

Female genital mutilation (FGM) (also known as female genital cutting, female genital mutilation/cutting (FGM/C) and female circumcision) is the cutting or removal of some or all of the vulva for non-medical reasons. FGM prevalence varies worldwide, but is significantly present in some countries of Africa, Asia, and Middle East, and within their…

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Age
Days after birth to puberty
Ages 0–14
Gambia (56%) · Mauritania (54%) · Indonesia (49%, 0–11) · Guinea (46%) · Eritrea (33%)
Ages 15–49
Somalia (98%) · Guinea (97%) · Djibouti (93%) · Sierra Leone (90%) · Mali (89%)
Areas
Africa, Southeast Asia, Middle East, and within communities from these areas
Definition
"Partial or total removal of the external female genitalia or other injury to the female genital organs for non-medical reasons" (WHO, UNICEF, and UNFPA, 1997).
Numbers
Over 230 million women and girls worldwide: 144 million in Africa, 80 million in Asia, 6 million in Middle East, and 1-2 million in other parts of the world (as of 2024)

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Female genital mutilation

Nodes267
Edges266
Triples179
Avg. degree1.99
Density0.007491
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Female genital mutilation

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related to Terminology · 45
Female genital mutilation → American, American Ethnologist, Ancient Egypt, Ancient Romans, Arabic, Bambara, Children, Church, Communities, Egypt, English, Females, FGC, FGM, FGM/C, Fran Hosken, From, Genital, Health, Igbo
Ages 15–49 · 29
Female genital mutilation → Benin (9%), Burkina Faso (76%), Cameroon (1%), Central African Republic (24%), Chad (44%), Côte d'Ivoire (38%), Djibouti (93%), Egypt (87%), Eritrea (83%), Ethiopia (74%), Gambia (75%), Ghana (4%), Guinea (97%), Guinea-Bissau (45%), Iraq (8%), Kenya (21%), Liberia (50%), Mali (89%), Mauritania (69%), Niger (2%)
Ages 0–14 · 21
Female genital mutilation → Benin (0.2%), Burkina Faso (13%), Central African Republic (1%), Côte d'Ivoire (10%), Egypt (14%), Eritrea (33%), Ethiopia (24%), Gambia (56%), Ghana (1%), Guinea (46%), Guinea-Bissau (30%), Indonesia (49%, 0–11), Kenya (3%), Mauritania (54%), Nigeria (17%), Senegal (13%), Sierra Leone (13%), Sudan (32%), Togo (0.3%), Uganda (1%)
related to United Nations · 20
Female genital mutilation → Africa, China, Declaration, Elimination, February, FGM, Florence, General Assembly, Gerry Mackie, In, In December, Intensifying, International Day, UN, UNFPA, UNICEF, UNICEF Innocenti Research Centre, United Nations General Assembly, Violence Against Women, Zero Tolerance
related to Tolerance versus human rights · 19
Female genital mutilation → According, African, Africans, American, Anthropologists, Commentators, Examples, FGM, FGM's, Judeo-Christian, Kenyan, Muslim, Obioma Nnaemeka, Pulitzer-prize-winning, Sylvia Tamale, The, Ugandan, West's, Western
related to Red Sea slave trade · 16
Female genital mutilation → According, African, An, Females, Islamic Middle East, João, Mackie, Masters, Mogadishu, Portuguese, Red Sea, Research, Santos, Thus, Whatever, Women
see also · 7
Female genital mutilation → Australia, Day, Dishonour, EmasculationGenital, Female Genital MutilationNo FGM, FGM, Zero Tolerance
related to External links · 6
Female genital mutilation → Dishonour, Female, Media, Wikimedia Commons Quotations, WikiquoteFilm, Wiktionary-logo-en-v2
Age · 1
Female genital mutilation → Days after birth to puberty
Areas · 1
Female genital mutilation → Africa, Southeast Asia, Middle East, and within communities from these areas

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SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
Female genital mutilationAgeDays after birth to puberty1.00infobox
Female genital mutilationAges 0–14Gambia (56%)1.00infobox
Female genital mutilationAges 0–14Mauritania (54%)1.00infobox
Female genital mutilationAges 0–14Indonesia (49%, 0–11)1.00infobox
Female genital mutilationAges 0–14Guinea (46%)1.00infobox
Female genital mutilationAges 0–14Eritrea (33%)1.00infobox
Female genital mutilationAges 0–14Sudan (32%)1.00infobox
Female genital mutilationAges 0–14Guinea-Bissau (30%)1.00infobox
Female genital mutilationAges 0–14Ethiopia (24%)1.00infobox
Female genital mutilationAges 0–14Nigeria (17%)1.00infobox
Female genital mutilationAges 0–14Yemen (15%)1.00infobox
Female genital mutilationAges 0–14Egypt (14%)1.00infobox
Female genital mutilationAges 0–14Burkina Faso (13%)1.00infobox
Female genital mutilationAges 0–14Sierra Leone (13%)1.00infobox
Female genital mutilationAges 0–14Senegal (13%)1.00infobox
Female genital mutilationAges 0–14Côte d'Ivoire (10%)1.00infobox
Female genital mutilationAges 0–14Kenya (3%)1.00infobox
Female genital mutilationAges 0–14Uganda (1%)1.00infobox
Female genital mutilationAges 0–14Central African Republic (1%)1.00infobox
Female genital mutilationAges 0–14Ghana (1%)1.00infobox
Female genital mutilationAges 0–14Togo (0.3%)1.00infobox
Female genital mutilationAges 0–14Benin (0.2%)1.00infobox
Female genital mutilationAges 15–49Somalia (98%)1.00infobox
Female genital mutilationAges 15–49Guinea (97%)1.00infobox
Female genital mutilationAges 15–49Djibouti (93%)1.00infobox
Female genital mutilationAges 15–49Sierra Leone (90%)1.00infobox
Female genital mutilationAges 15–49Mali (89%)1.00infobox
Female genital mutilationAges 15–49Egypt (87%)1.00infobox
Female genital mutilationAges 15–49Sudan (87%)1.00infobox
Female genital mutilationAges 15–49Eritrea (83%)1.00infobox

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