7th July 2015

Prevalence of female genital mutilation in England and Wales

Summary

This report contains estimates of the number of women with female genital mutilation (FGM) living in England and Wales, the number of women with FGM giving birth, and the number of girls born to women with FGM. Headline figures for England and Wales as a whole were published in an interim report.

It contains estimates at a local authority level. To enable interpretation of these data, it also contains data about the extent to which FGM is practised in the women’s countries of origin and about the populations of women born in these countries and living in England and Wales in 2011.

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