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

Table 8.

Girls at risk of different types of FGM/C

Country	Low FGM/C risk scenario		High FGM/C risk scenario
Country	Type III	Other types	Type III	Other types
Cameroon	0	0	0	0
Côte d’Ivoire	0	^a	^a	^a
Djibouti	^a	^a	^a	^a
Egypt	^a	69	^a	111
Eritrea	60	118	221	433
Ethiopia	^a	87	20	399
Gambia	^a	17	^a	126
Ghana	0	^a	0	^a
Guinea	^a	30	^a	45
Iraq	0	116	0	284
Kenya	^a	22	^a	28
Liberia	0	50	0	77
Nigeria	0	^a	^a	28
Senegal	0	^a	^a	^a
Sierra Leone	^a	61	11	94
Somalia	1634	516	4319	1364
Sudan	124	44	210	74
Togo	0	0	0	0
Uganda	0	^a	0	^a
United Republic of Tanzania	0	^a	0	^a
Yemen	0	^a	0	^a
Other countries^b	0	^a	^a	^a
Total	1842	1157	4811	3118
%	61 %	39 %	61 %	39 %

^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