Female genital mittlin

	Road sign near Kapchorwa, Uganda, 2004
Defineetion	"Pairtial or tot remuival o the freemit female genitalia or ither injury tae the female genital organs for non-medical raisons" (WHO, UNICEF and UNFPA, 1997).
Auries	Africae, Asie, Middle East an within communities frae thir auries
Nummers	Over 200 million women and girls in 27 African countries, Indonesia, Iraqi Kurdistan and Yemen (as of 2016)
Age	Days efter birth tae puberty
Prevalence
Ages 15–49
	Soorce: UNICEF, Februar 2016 Somalie (98%); Guinea (97%); Djibouti (93%); Sierra Leone (90%); Mali (89%); Egyp (87%); Sudan (87%); Eritrea (83%); Burkina Faso (76%); Gambie (75%); Ethiopie (74%); Mauritanie (69%); Liberie (50%); Guinea-Bissau (45%); ; Chad (44%); Côte d'Ivoire (38%); Nigerie (25%); Senegal (25%); Central African Republic (24%); Kenyae (21%); Yemen (19%); Unitit Republic o Tanzanie (15%); Benin (9%); Iraq (8%); Togo (5%); Ghana (4%); Niger (2%); Uganda (1%); Cameroon (1%);
Ages 0–14
	Soorce: UNICEF, Februar 2016 Gambie (56%); Mauritanie (54%); Indonesie (49%, 0–11); Guinea (46%); Eritrea (33%); Sudan (32%); Guinea-Bissau (30%); Ethiopie (24%); Nigerie (17%); Yemen (15%); Egyp (14%); Burkina Faso (13%); Sierra Leone (13%); Senegal (13%); Côte d'Ivoire (10%); Kenyae (3%); Uganda (1%); Central African Republic (1%); Ghana (1%); Togo (0.3%); Benin (0.2%);

Female genital mittlin (FGM), kent as female genital cuttin an female circumcision an aw, is the reetual cuttin or remuival o some or aw o the freemit female genitalia.