FGM/C Infographic

PRB INFORM EMPOWER ADVANCE FGM/C All procedures that involve partial or total removal of the external female genitalia or other injury to the female genital organs for nonmedical reasons. WHO IS AFFECTED BY FGM/C? 100 MILLION-140 MILLION GIRLS & WOMEN WORLDWIDE HAVE UNDERGONE FGM/C ROUGHLY THE COMBINED POPULATIONS OF CAIRO: 11 MILLIÓN.... MEXICO CITY: 20 MILLION NEW YORK: 20 MILLION 11111 LONDON: 9 MILLION... MOSCOW: 11 MILLION. TOKYO: 37 MILLION TOTAL: 137 MILLION PARIS: 10 MILLION..... MUMBAI: 19 MILLION. WHERE IS FGM/C HAPPENING? 28 AFRICAN COUNTRIES WELL AS INDONESIA, IRAQ, INDIA, PAKISTAN, & YEMEN 3 MILLION GIRLS IN AFRICA ARE AT RISK FOR CUTTING EACH YEAR 70 MILLION GIRLS & WOMEN IN 3 COUNTRIES ALONE HAVE UNDERGONE FGM/C 23 MILLION IN ETHIOPIA 27 MILLION 20 MILLION IN EGYPT IN NIGERIA PROGRESS TOWARD ENDING FGM/C AMONG YOUNGER &OLDER WOMEN Recent data reflects lower levels of cutting among girls ages 15 to 19, giving hope that abandonment efforts are yielding results. I AGES 15-19 BENIN. BURKINA FASO. I AGES 45-49 CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC. CHAD. COTE D'IVOIRE. 81% 96% EGYPT DJIBOUTI. CONGO, DEM. REP. 70% 96% SIERRA LEONE EGYPT. ERITREA. ETHIOPIA. GHANA. GUINEA. 62% 81% ETHIOPIA GUINEA-BISSAU. KENYA. MALI. MAURITANIA. NIGER. NIGERIA. 41% 48% CHAD SENEGAL. SOMALIA. SUDAN. 19% 38% NIGERIA TANZANIA. TOGO. UGANDA. CENTRAL 18% 34% AFRICAN REP. DATE ESTABLISHED .............. 24% 29% 1 1960-1990 1 1991-2000 SENEGAL 1 2001-2010 I 2011-2014 COUNTRIES WITH LAWS & DECREES RELATED TO FGM/C IN AFRICA LOOKING TOWARD A FUTURE WITHOUT FGM/C LESSONS LEARNED FROM 20 YEARS OF INTERVENTIONS HUMAN EMPOWER WIDE HOLISTIC RIGHTS WOMEN AND RANGE OF APPROACHES FRAMEWORK GIRLS ACTORS APPROPRIATE EVALUATIONS POLITICAL DONOR HEALTH CARE WILL INVESTMENT FOR WOMEN Charlotte Feldman-Jacobs and Donna Clifton, Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting: Data and Trends Update 2014 (Washington, DC: Population Reference Bureau, 2014). Charlotte Feldman-Jacobs, ed., Ending Female Genital Mutilation Cutting: Lessons From a Decade of Progress (Washington, DC: Population Reference Bureau, 2014). Carl Haub and Toshiko Kaneda, 2013 World Population Data Sheet (Washington, DC: Population Reference Bureau, 2013). UNICEF, Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting: A Statistical Overiew and Exploration of the Dynamics of Change (New York: UNICEF, 2013). © 2014 Population Reference Bureau. All rights reserved. 1875 Connecticut Ave., NW Suite 520, Washington, DC 20009 USA | www.prb.org PRB AEePRBdata PREVALENCE