This indicator presents the number of refugee girls by age group (0-18, 0-9, 10-18), originating from an FGM-practising country. 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.
A refugee is someone who has been granted refugee status based on the Convention relating to the Status of Refugees signed at Geneva on 28 July 1951, as amended by the New York Protocol of 31 January 1967. According to the Convention, a refugee is someone who is unable or unwilling to return to their country of origin owing to a well-founded fear of being persecuted for reasons of race, religion, nationality, membership of a particular social group, or political opinion, is outside the country of their nationality and is unable or, owing to such fear, is unwilling to avail themselves of the protection of that country; or who, not having a nationality and being outside the country of their former habitual residence as a result of such events, is unable or, owing to such fear, is unwilling to return to it.
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 |