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In 2019, 24 percent of girls aged 15 to 19 years in East and Southern Africa had undergone female genital mutilation. In West and Central African countries, the share of young girls who endured this practice was at 23 percent.
Female genital mutilation is defined by the World Health Organization as any procedure that involves partial or total removal of the external genitalia and/or injury to the female genital organs for non-therapeutic reasons.