Estimating the magnitude of female genital mutilation/cutting in Norway: an extrapolation model

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Table 4 Estimated numbers of girls and women already undergone FGM/C

Country	Undergone FGM/C^a (Group 1a)
Cameroon	^b
Côte d’Ivoire	38
Djibouti	28
Egypt	197
Eritrea	3999
Ethiopia	2011
Gambia	330
Ghana	22
Guinea	71
Iraq	590
Kenya	174
Liberia	181
Nigeria	131
Senegal	18
Sierra Leone	124
Somalia	8687
Sudan	571
Togo	^b
Uganda	^b
United Republic of Tanzania	50
Yemen	31
Other countries^c	22
Total	17281
% of the total FGM/C affected population	38.9 %

^aAdjusted for prevalence level 15–49
^bMore than 0 and less than 10 per category
^cCountries with less than 20 in total: Benin, Burkina Faso, Central African Republic, Chad, Guinea-Bissau, Mali, Mauritania and Niger

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