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. 2016 Apr 4;14:11. doi: 10.1186/s12963-016-0080-6

Table 1.

Percentage of circumcised males in each of the 237 countries and territories in the world*

Country/Territory MC % Country/Territory MC % Country/Territory MC %
Afghanistan 99.8 Ghana 91.6 Oman 87.7
Albania 47.7 Gibraltar 6 Pakistan 96.4
Algeria 97.9 Greece 4.74 Palau 95
American Samoa 95 Greenland 0.1 Panama 0.95
Andorra 1.1 Grenada 0.3 Papua New Guinea 10.1
Angola 57.5 Guam 95 Paraguay 0.11
Anguilla 0.3 Guatemala 0.11 Peru 3.7
Antigua & Barbuda 0.6 Guernsey 0.1 Philippines 91.7
Argentina 2.9 Guinea 84.2 Pitcairn Islands 0.1
Armenia 0.1 Guinea-Bissau 93.3 Poland 0.11
Aruba 0.46 Guyana 12 Portugal 0.61
Australia 58 Haiti 6.2 Puerto Rico 0.14
Austria 5.8 Holy See (Vatican) 0.1 Qatar 77.5
Azerbaijan 98.5 Honduras 0.1 Romania 0.34
Bahamas, The 0.2 Hong Kong 28 Russia 11.8
Bahrain 81.2 Hungary 0.78 Rwanda 13.3
Bangladesh 93.2 Iceland 0.1 Saint Barthelemy 0.1
Barbados 0.9 India 13.5 Saint Helena, Ascens 0.1
Belarus 0.32 Indonesia 92.5 Saint Kitts & Nevis 0.3
Belgium 22.6 Iran 99.7 Saint Lucia 0.1
Belize 0.1 Iraq 98.9 Saint Martin & Tristan 0.1
Benin 92.9 Ireland 0.93 Saint Pierre & Miquel 0.2
Bermuda 0.8 Isle of Man 0.2 Saint Vincent & Grena 1.7
Bhutan 1.0 Israel 91.7 Samoa 95
Bolivia 0.11 Italy 2.6 San Marino 0.1
Bosnia & Herzegovina 41.6 Jamaica 14 Sao Tome & Principe 0.1
Botswana 15.1 Japan 9 Saudi Arabia 97.1
Brazil 1.3 Jersey 0.1 Senegal 93.5
British Virgin Islands 1.2 Jordan 98.8 Serbia 3.71
Brunei 51.9 Kazakhstan 56.4 Seychelles 1.1
Bulgaria 13.4 Kenya 91.2 Sierra Leone 96.1
Burkin Faso 88.3 Kiribati 0.1 Singapore 14.9
Burma 3.5 Korea, North 0.1 Sint Maarten 0.06
Burundi 61.7 Korea, South 77.0 Slovakia 0.15
Cabo Verde 0.1 Kosovo Islands 91.7 Slovenia 8.5
Cambodia 3.5 Kuwait 86.4 Solomon Islands 95
Cameroon 94 Kyrgyzstan 91.9 Somalia 93.5
Canada 31.9 Laos 0.1 South Africa 44.7
Cayman Islands 0.2 Latvia 0.38 South Sudan 23.6
Central African Republic 63.0 Lebanon 59.7 Spain 6.6
Chad 73.5 Lesotho 52 Sri Lanka 8.5
Chile 0.21 Liberia 97.7 Sudan 39.4
China 14.0 Libya 96.6 Suriname 15.9
Christmas Island 0.1 Liechtenstein 4.8 Svalbard 0.1
Cocos (Keeling) 95 Lithuania 0.2 Swaziland 8.2
Columbia 4.2 Luxembourg 2.42 Sweden 5.1
Comoros 99.4 Macau 0.1 Switzerland 5.9
Congo, Dem Rep 97.2 Macedonia 33.9 Syria 92.8
Congo, Republic 70 Madagascar 94.7 Taiwan 8.3
Cook Islands 95 Malawi 21.6 Tajikistan 99
Costa Rica 0.15 Malaysia 61.4 Tanzania 72
Cote d’Ivoire 96.7 Maldives 98.4 Thailand 11.9
Croatia 1.34 Mali 86 Timor-Leste 6.4
Cuba 0.11 Malta 0.3 Togo 95.2
Curacao 0.07 Marshall Islands 0.1 Tokelau 95
Cyprus 22.7 Mauritania 99.2 Tonga 95
Czech Republic 0.14 Mauritius 16.6 Trinidad & Tobago 5.8
Denmark 5.3 Mexico 15.4 Tunisia 99.8
Djibouti 96.5 Micronesia, Fed States 0.1 Turkey 98.6
Dominica 0.2 Moldova 0.5 Turkmenistan 93.4
Dominican Repub 13.7 Monaco 0.5 Turks & Caicos Is 0.1
Ecuador 0.11 Mongolia 4.4 Tuvalu 95
Egypt 94.7 Montenegro 18.5 Uganda 26.7
El Salvador 0.11 Montserrat 0.1 Ukraine 2.3
Equatorial Guinea 87 Morocco 99.9 United Arab Emirates 76
Eritrea 97.2 Mozambique 47.4 United Kingdom 20.7
Estonia 0.25 Namibia 25.5 United States 80.5
Ethiopia 92.2 Nauru 95 Uruguay 0.62
Falkland Islands 0.1 Nepal 4.2 Uzbekistan 96.5
Faroe Islands 0.1 Netherlands 5.7 Vanuatu 95
Fiji 55 New Caledonia 50 Venezuela 0.33
Finland 0.82 New Zealand 33.0 Vietnam 0.2
France 14 Nicaragua 0.1 Virgin Islands 0.55
French Polynesia 78 Niger 95.5 Wallis & Futuna 0.1
Gabon 99.2 Nigeria 98.9 West Bank 99.9
Gambia, The 94.5 Niue 95 Western Sahara 99.6
Gaza Strip 99.9 Norfolk Island 0.1 Yemen 99.0
Georgia 10. 6 Northern Mariana Is 90 Zambia 21.6
Germany 6.7 Norway 3.0 Zimbabwe 9.2

*The reader is referred to Additional files 1 and 2 in the supplementary material in order to understand the use of our methodology for deriving the values shown in this Table