This indicator presents both the number and the percentage of migrant girls (first- and second-generation) by age group (0-18, 0-9, 10-18) from an FGM-practising country, living in an EU Member State, who have been found at risk of FGM. Migrant girls have been resident in a Member State for at least one year. In the low scenario (2015 methodology), a girl’s level of risk is linked to whether she is first or second generation, and whether she is younger than the median age at which FGM occurs in the country of origin (the ‘risk’ age band). It is assumed that migration and acculturation do not affect FGM prevalence for first-generation migrants in the ‘risk’ age band (i.e. the risk is the same for these girls as it would have been in the country of origin) but the practice of FGM disappears amongst second-generation migrants (i.e. the experience of migration removes a girl’s risk). 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 |