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SELECTED STATISTICS ON WOMEN’S STATUS
9% of women 20-24 years married orin union before age 15
36% of women 20-24 years married orin union before age 18
37% of women 20-24 years have given birthby age 18
43%of women aged 15-49 years old thinkthat a husband/partner is justifi ed inhitting/beating his wife under certaincircumstances
45%of women 15-49 years make use at leastone type of information media at leastonce a week (newspaper, magazine,television, radio)
Source: DHS 2013
Female genital mutilation (FGM) refers to “all procedures involving partial or total removal of the female external genitalia or other injury to the female genital organs for non-medical reasons.”1
While the exact number of girls and women worldwide who have undergone FGM remains unknown, at least 200 million girls and women have been cut in 30 countries with representative data on prevalence. FGM is a violation of girls’ and women’s human rights and is condemned by many international treaties and conventions, as well as by national legislation in many countries. Yet, where it is practised FGM is performed in line with tradition and social norms to ensure that girls are socially accepted and marriageable, and to uphold their status and honour and that of the entire family. UNICEF works with government and civil society partners towards the elimination of FGM in countries where it is still practised.
1. World Health Organization, Eliminating Female Genital Mutilation: An interagency statement, WHO, UNFPA, UNICEF, UNIFEM, OHCHR, UNHCR, UNECA, UNESCO, UNDP, UNAIDS, WHO, Geneva, 2008, p. 4.
STATISTICAL PROFILE ON FEMALE GENITAL MUTILATION
LIBERIA
Data and Analytics SectionDIVISION OF DATA, RESEARCH AND POLICY
© UNICEF/UNI130428/Noorani
No national decree/legislation banning FGM
WHAT ARE THE PREVAILING ATTITUDES TOWARDS FGM?
HOW WIDESPREAD IS THE PRACTICE?
Half of girls and women in Liberia have undergone FGM, with variations by county, place of residence, wealth and religion
Two in three girls experienced the practice between ages 5 and 14
Percentage of girls and women aged 15 to 49 yearswho have undergone FGM, by county
Percentage of girls and women aged 15-49 years who have undergone FGM,by residence, wealth quintile and religion
IS THE PRACTICE OF FGM CHANGING?
The prevalence of FGM in Liberia has halved in three decades
Notes: The boundaries and the names shown and the designations used on the map do not imply offi cial endorsement or acceptance by the United Nations. Only categories with 25 or more unweighted cases are presented. Due to rounding, some of the data presented may not add up to 100 per cent. Data on the prevalence of FGM among girls and women with traditional religion are based on 25-49 unweighted cases. In Liberia, girls and women who have heard of the Sande society were asked whether they were members; this provides indirect information on FGM since it is performed during initiation into the society. Data for daughters were never collected for Liberia. In Liberia, only cut girls and women were asked about their attitudes towards FGM; since girls and women from practising communities are more likely to support the practice, the level of support in this country as captured by the DHS 2013 is higher than would be expected had all girls and women been asked their opinion.Source for all of the above charts: DHS 2013
Percentage of girls and women aged 15-49 years who have heard about FGM, by their attitudes about whether the practice should continue
Percentage of girls and women aged 15-49 years who have undergone FGM, by current age
Slightly more than half of girls and women in Liberia think that the practice should stopwhile around one in three think it should continue
10% - 25%
26% - 50%
51% - 80%
Less than 10%
Above 80%
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20
40
60
80
100
ChristianNo religionMuslimTraditionalreligion
RichestPoorestUrbanRuralTotal
4456
37
58
26
60 59
42
77
Don't know/Missing
Think FGM should stop
Think FGM should continue
0 20 40 60 80 100
39 55 6
Two in three girls experienced the practice between ages 5 and 14Percentage of girls and women aged 15 to 49 years who have heard about FGM and think the practice should continue, by wealth quintile, education, residence and age
0
20
40
60
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100
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263645545658
66
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15-19 years45-49 yearsUrbanRuralSecondaryor higher
Primarycomplete
No educationRichestPoorestTotal
4325
46 4125
43 36 40 4139
Percentage of girls and women aged 15 to 49 years who have undergone FGM
LIBERIA
INTER-COUNTRY STATISTICAL OVERVIEW
Percentage of girls and women aged 15 to 49 years who have heard about FGM and think the practice should continue
1 0.3 2 4 5 7 9 10
1924 24
1821
37 38
4544
67 65
76 75
87 86 83 83 87
93 97 98
0
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Notes: Data on attitudes for Yemen refer to ever-married girls and women. In Liberia, girls and women who have heard of the Sande society were asked whether they were members; this provides indirect information on FGM since it is performed during initiation into the society. MICS data for Ghana (2011) could not be used to report on attitudes towards FGM due to the fact that information is missing for girls and women with no living daughters; data from MICS 2006 are used instead. In Liberia, only cut girls and women were asked about their attitudes towards FGM; since girls and women from practicing communities are more likely to support the practice, the level of support in this country as captured by DHS 2013 is higher than would be expected had all girls and women been asked their opinion. Prevalence data on FGM for girls and women aged 15 to 49 years and data on attitudes towards FGM are not available for Indonesia.
Sources: DHS, MICS, Health Issues Survey, Population and Health Survey and RISKESDAS, 2004-2018.
Updated January 2019
FOR MORE INFORMATIONData and Analytics Section - Division of Data, Research and Policy
UNICEF, 3 UN Plaza, New York, 10017Website: data.unicef.org Email: data@unicef.org
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