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. 2016 Feb 2;16:110. doi: 10.1186/s12889-016-2794-6

Table 5.

Girls and women already subjected to FGM/C by types

Country Already subjected to FGM/C
Type III Other types Total
Cameroon 0 a a
Côte d’Ivoire 3 35 38
Djibouti 19 9 28
Egypt a 196 197
Eritrea 1543 2456 3999
Ethiopia 123 1888 2011
Gambia 30 300 330
Ghana a 20 22
Guinea a 66 71
Iraq 0 590 590
Kenya 23 151 174
Liberia 0 181 181
Nigeria a 124 131
Senegal a 15 18
Sierra Leone 11 113 124
Somalia 6889 1798 8687
Sudan 470 101 571
Togo 0 a a
Uganda 0 a a
United Republic of Tanzania 0 49 49
Yemen 0 31 31
Other countriesb a 19 21
Total 9131 8150 17281
% 52.8 % 47.2 % 100 %

aMore than 0 and less than 10 per category

bCountries with less than 20 in total: Benin, Burkina Faso, Central African Republic, Chad, Guinea-Bissau, Mali, Mauritania and Niger