This indicator presents the number of asylum-seeking girls who originate from an FGM-practising country and who are younger than the median age at which FGM occurs in the country of origin (as registered by the Demographic and Health Surveys). It presents only the number of girls who are younger than the median age, from within the broader age groups (0-18, 0-9, 10-18).
According to Eurostat, an asylum seeker is an asylum applicant awaiting a decision on an application for international protection, granting or refusing a refugee status or another form of international protection. ‘Application for international protection’ means an application for international protection, as defined in Article 2(h) of Directive 2011/95/EU. i.e. a request by a third-country national or a stateless person for protection from a Member State, who can be understood to seek refugee status or subsidiary protection status, and who does not explicitly request another kind of protection. A “refugee” is defined in line with the Convention relating to the Status of Refugees done at Geneva on 28 July 1951, as amended by the New York Protocol of 31 January 1967. “Subsidiary protection” is defined in line with Article 2(f) and 2(g) of Directive 2011/95/EU.
The list of FGM-practising countries at the time of the 2018 study was Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Côte d’Ivoire, Djibouti, Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea‑Bissau, Guinea-Conakry, Indonesia, Iraq, Kenya, Liberia, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Somalia, Sudan, Togo, Uganda, Tanzania, Yemen.
Available flags:
| b | break in time series | c | confidential |
| d | definition differs, see metadata | e | estimated |
| f | forecast | i | see metadata |
| m | imputed | n | not significant |
| p | provisional | r | revised |
| s | Eurostat estimate | u | low reliability |
| x | dropped due to insufficient sample size | y | unreliable due to small sample size |
| z | not applicable |