This indicator presents both the number and the percentage of migrant girls (first- and second-generation) aged 0-18 in an EU Member State who come from an FGM-practising country and are considered to be at risk of FGM. The percentage of girls at risk is calculated by dividing the number of migrant girls aged 0-18 at risk of FGM who come from a FGM-practising country, by the overall number of migrant girls aged 0-18 who come from the same FGM-practising country. In the low scenario (2018 methodology), a girl's level of risk is linked to i) whether she is below or has reached the median age at which FGM occurs in the country of origin, increased by its standard deviation (the 'risk' age band) and ii) whether she is from the first or second generation. It is assumed that migration and acculturation do not affect FGM prevalence for first-generation girls 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). It is further assumed that second-generation girls in the 'risk' age band remain at risk of FGM, but are half as likely as first-generation girls to experience it.
Migrant girls have been resident in a Member State for at least one year. 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 |