FGM
- In Ghana, one in 7 (15%) females had been circumcised (Coker-Appiah & Cusack, 1999; Ghana National Study on Violence 1998,survey of 2,069 women and girls supplemented by a five-year review of official records).
- The following are recorded in Female Genital Cutting in the Demographic and Health Surveys: A Critical and Comparative Analysis, 2004 (http://www.measuredhs.com/pubs/pdf/CR7/CR7.pdf):
Demographic and Health Surveys found the following prevalence of FGM--
Northeastern Africa Sample Size % Occurrence Sample Size Egypt 2000 97 15,573 Eritrea 1995 95 5,054 Eritrea 2001-02 89 8,754 Sudan (northern) 1989-90 89 5,860 Ethiopia 2000 80 15,367 Northern West Africa Sample Size % Occurrence Sample Size Guinea 1999 99 6,753 Mali 1995-96 94 9,704 Mali 2001 92 12,849 Burkina Fas 1998-99 72 6,445 Mauritania 2000-01 71 7,728 Niger 1998 5 7,577 Southern West Africa/ Middle Africa Sample Size % Occurrence Sample Size Côte d'Ivoire 1994 43 8,099 Côte d'Ivoire 1998-99 45 3,040 Central African Rep. 1994-95 43 5,884 Nigeria 1999 25 8,206 Benin 2001 17 6,219 Eastern Africa Sample Size % Occurrence Sample Size Kenya 1998 38 7,881 Tanzania 1996 18 8,120 Western Asia Sample Size % Occurrence Sample Size Yemen 1997 23 10,414