Female genital mutilation: trends, economic burden of delay and basis for public health interventions

Table 2 Distinction of countries based on the inequality between and within countries of the FGM prevalence according to wealth and residence

Country	Start prevalence rate (%)	Start year	Last prevalence rate (%)	End year	Significance (P-value < 0,10)	CAGR (%)	Distribution of FGM prevalence divided by residence
First group. Heterogeneneous distribution of the FGM prevalence							Urban	Rural
Benin	50	1990	9,2	2014	*	-6,81	5	13
Central African Republic	43	1990	21,6	2019	*	-2,35	12	28
Chad	60	1990	34,1	2019	*	-1,93	32	35
Côte d’Ivoire	43	1990	36,7	2016	*	-0,61	31	44
Ghana	30	1990	2,4	2018	*	-8,63	1	4
Kenya	50	1990	21	2014	*	-3,55	14	26
Liberia	60	1990	32	2020		-2,07	25	43
Mauritania	25	1990	64	2020		3,18	55	79
Niger	20	1990	2	2012		-9,94	1	2
Nigeria	40	1990	15	2020	*	-3,22	24	16
Tanzania	10	1990	10	2016		0,00	5	13
Togo	50	1990	3,1	2017	*	-9,79	3	4
Uganda	5	1990	0,3	2016	*	-10,26	0	2
Yemen	22,6	1997	18,5	2013		-1,24	17	19
Second group. Homogeneous distribution of the FGM prevalence							Urban	Rural
Burkina Faso	70	1990	68	2015		-0,12	69	78
Djibouti	98	1990	90	2019	*	-0,29	94	98
Egypt	97	1990	87,2	2015	*	-0,43	77	93
Eritrea	90	1990	83	2010		-0,40	80	85
Ethiopia	85	1990	65,2	2016	*	-1,01	54	68
Gambia	80	1990	73	2020	*	-0,30	75	67
Guinea	60	1990	94,5	2018		1,64	95	94
Guinea-Bissau	50	1990	52,1	2019		0,14	43	59
Mali	94	1990	88,6	2018	*	-0,21	89	88
Senegal	20	1990	25,2	2019		0,80	21	29
Sierra Leone	90	1990	83	2019		-0,28	76	89
Somalia	98	1990	99	2020		0,03	99	99
Sudan	89,2	1990	86,6	2014		-0,12	86	87

NOTE: For clarity, we only present the FGM distribution by residence and more details can be found in the Appendix 3 and 4

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