Statement of Terre des Femmes e. V. - Human Rights of Women at the Public Hearing of the Committee on Family Affairs, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth on the subject „Fighting Female Genital Mutilation“ on September 19th, 2007

FGM prevalence figures were applied to all migrant women in Germany originating from countries where FGM is being practiced according to UN organisations and the WHO (World Health Organisation). To estimate the migrant female population in Germany, data from the Federal Office of Statistics were included.

Data Collection

Author(s)

Franziska Gruber, Regina Kalthegener

Year of data collection

2005-2006

Study population

Women with FGM; women (girls) at risk of FGM

Prevalence data on FGM

Population of female migrants originating from countries where FGM is practiced: 57.735 according to the Federal Office of Statistics; number of women/girls who have most probably undergone FGM: 19.000; number of women/girls who are thought to be at risk of FGM: 4.000. Including unregistered migrants TDF estimates the number of women with FGM or threatened by FGM 30.000

Disaggregated data per country of origin

None

Limitations of study

Study mostly refers to migrants from African countries, but not from Arab countries like Yemen and United Arab Emirates.