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Female Genital Mutilation Prevalence

Female Genital Mutilation Prevalence, 2024 compilation · 31 countries

This is the share of women aged 15 to 49 who have undergone female genital mutilation, in the countries where the practice is established enough to be surveyed.

This site holds one edition, Female Genital Mutilation Prevalence, 2024 compilation, read from UNICEF’s own data and stored exactly as published.

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Female Genital Mutilation Prevalence, 2024 compilation
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1 edition · 31 rows
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CC BY 3.0 IGO

01One edition

Every edition

Newest first. Each opens the full table for that edition, and each downloads as a CSV.

Every edition of Female Genital Mutilation Prevalence held on this site, newest first, with its download files.
EditionCountriesChangeReadDownload
Female Genital Mutilation Prevalence, 2024 compilation31—September 10, 2026CSV

Every edition in one file, one row per country per edition: fgm-prevalence-all-editions-nations-inquiry.csv

024 columns

What’s in the file

Every column, what it holds, how it is stored and what its values look like — what a reader needs before opening the file.

Every column in the newest file of Female Genital Mutilation Prevalence: what it holds, how it is stored, and its range.
ColumnWhat it holdsStored asRange, 2024DistinctEmptySpread
ISO Codecountry_codeIdentifierThe ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 code, added by this site. Every table here joins on it.Text · 3 letters—310
CountrycountryNameThe country’s name, as this file spells it.Text—310
Survey yearreference_yearReading yearThe year this country’s reading describes. Readings from different years sit side by side.Year—150
Women aged 15-49 who have undergone FGM (%)fgm_prevalenceHeadlineThe headline figure: Women aged 15-49 who have undergone FGM (%).Number · up to 1 decimal0.3Uganda99.2Somaliamiddle 34.1300

Profiled from the newest file. Range: the lowest and highest value, with the country holding it when only one does. Spread: countries in ten equal steps from lowest to highest. A higher value is the worse result.

0331 countries across every edition

Who is covered

How many countries each edition holds, continent by continent, who joined and who left, and which places this site covers that the dataset never has.

All regions
Countries in each edition of Female Genital Mutilation Prevalence, by continent.
2024
Africa27
Americas0
Asia4
Europe0
Oceania0
All31

One edition, covering 31 countries.

Not in this dataset · 194 places this site covers

UNICEF gives no figure for these in any edition held here. It is the publisher’s choice of scope, and each place’s profile shows what is measured.

AfghanistanAlbaniaAlgeriaAmerican SamoaAndorraAngolaAnguillaAntigua and BarbudaArgentinaArmeniaArubaAustraliaAustriaAzerbaijanBahamasBahrainBangladeshBarbadosBelarusBelgiumBelizeBermudaBhutanBoliviaBosnia and HerzegovinaBotswanaBrazilBritish Virgin IslandsBruneiBulgariaBurundiCabo VerdeCambodiaCanadaCayman IslandsChannel IslandsChileChinaColombiaComorosCook IslandsCosta RicaCroatiaCubaCuraçaoCyprusCzechiaDenmarkDominicaDominican RepublicDR CongoEcuadorEl SalvadorEquatorial GuineaEstoniaEswatiniFaroe IslandsFijiFinlandFranceFrench PolynesiaGabonGeorgiaGermanyGibraltarGreeceGreenlandGrenadaGuamGuatemalaGuyanaHaitiHondurasHong KongHungaryIcelandIndiaIranIrelandIsle of ManIsraelItalyJamaicaJapanJordanKazakhstanKiribatiKosovoKuwaitKyrgyzstanLaosLatviaLebanonLesothoLibyaLiechtensteinLithuaniaLuxembourgMacauMadagascarMalawiMalaysiaMaltaMarshall IslandsMauritiusMexicoMicronesiaMoldovaMonacoMongoliaMontenegroMontserratMoroccoMozambiqueMyanmarNamibiaNauruNepalNetherlandsNew CaledoniaNew ZealandNicaraguaNiueNorth KoreaNorth MacedoniaNorthern CyprusNorthern Mariana IslandsNorwayOmanPakistanPalauPalestinePanamaPapua New GuineaParaguayPeruPhilippinesPolandPortugalPuerto RicoQatarRepublic of the CongoRomaniaRussiaRwandaSaint Kitts and NevisSaint LuciaSaint MartinSaint Vincent and the GrenadinesSamoaSan MarinoSão Tomé and PríncipeSaudi ArabiaSerbiaSeychellesSingaporeSint MaartenSlovakiaSloveniaSolomon IslandsSomalilandSouth AfricaSouth KoreaSouth SudanSpainSri LankaSurinameSwedenSwitzerlandSyriaTaiwanTajikistanThailandTimor-LesteTongaTrinidad and TobagoTunisiaTürkiyeTurkmenistanTurks and Caicos IslandsTuvaluUkraineUnited Arab EmiratesUnited KingdomUnited StatesUnited States Virgin IslandsUruguayUzbekistanVanuatuVatican CityVenezuelaVietnamZambiaZimbabwe

04Provenance

Where it comes from

The path from the publisher to this page, and what was checked and changed on the way.

The site’s method
  1. 1 · Publisher

    UNICEF

  2. 2 · Their file

    Female Genital Mutilation Prevalence (surveys to 2024)

  3. 3 · Read by this site

    September 10, 2026

    Imported by a script that parses each figure and writes it down unrounded.
  4. 4 · Stored as

    1 file, one per edition

  5. 5 · Used on

    Its statistic page, and every profile it measures

Precision

The headline is stored to 1 decimal, as published.

Rounded by this site

Never. Tables on screen may show fewer decimals; the files never do.

Changed by this site

Reshaped into one row per country: regional and income-group totals are left out, only the columns listed are kept, each row gets its ISO 3166 code, and some country names are brought to one spelling. No value is recalculated, rescaled or rounded.

Read from UNICEF's own data warehouse (PT_F_15-49_FGM), one reading per country from its most recent survey.

05Reuse

Licence and credit

What the publisher’s licence lets you do, what it asks of you, and a credit line and citation ready to copy.

Every publisher’s terms

Licence · checked September 10, 2026

CC BY 3.0 IGO

  • Share and redistribute it
  • Adapt it and build on it
  • Use it commercially
  • Credit the publisher
  • Say what you changed

The version of CC BY written for intergovernmental organisations. Credit the publisher and say what you changed.

A credit line

Source: UNICEF, Female Genital Mutilation Prevalence, via Nations Inquiry.

Cite this dataset

UNICEF. Female Genital Mutilation Prevalence, Female Genital Mutilation Prevalence, 2024 compilation [data set]. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/fgm-prevalence

The publisher’s own citation: UNICEF. UNICEF Data Warehouse. New York: UNICEF.

Plain-language summary, not legal advice. The licence text is what binds.

06Questions

Female Genital Mutilation Prevalence: questions and answers

What is the Female Genital Mutilation Prevalence?

This is the share of women aged 15 to 49 who have undergone female genital mutilation, in the countries where the practice is established enough to be surveyed.

Which editions of the Female Genital Mutilation Prevalence can I download?

One: Female Genital Mutilation Prevalence, 2024 compilation, as a CSV file.

Does UNICEF rank countries on it?

No, and this site does not order it either. The files hold values only.

Can I use it commercially?

Yes, under CC BY 3.0 IGO, with credit to UNICEF. The licence text is linked on this page.

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