This indicator presents the number of asylum-seeking girls aged 0-18 from an FGM-practising country, who are below or have reached the median age at which FGM occurs in the country of origin (as registered by the Demographic and Health Surveys), increased by its standard deviation. It presents only the number of girls who fulfil this criterion within the wider age band 0-18.
A girl "originates from" an FGM-practising country if she was born in an FGM-practising country, or has at least one parent born in an FGM-practising country. The list of FGM-practising countries at the time of the 2020-2021 study was Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Côte d'Ivoire, Djibouti, Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, the Gambia, Ghana, Guinea-Bissau, Guinea, Indonesia, Iraq, Kenya, Liberia, Maldives, 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 |