This indicator presents the number of migrant girls (first- and second-generation) by age group (0-18, 0-9, 10-18), who have been resident in a Member State for at least one year, 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.
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 |