One or more forms of female genital mutilation are practiced in 28 African countries. Looking at a map of Africa, female genital mutilation is practiced throughout the central area of the continent. Almost all the women in Somalia, Gibuti and Sudan (with the exception of non-Moslem populations in southern Sudan), the Ethiopian coast of the Red Sea, northern Kenya, North Nigeria and some regions of Mali undergo infibulation.

Outside the African continent, excision is practiced in Oman, Yemen, the United Arab Emirate, and in some areas of Indonesia and Malesia

About 100/130 millionwomen and children throughout the world have been subjected to mutilation and approximately two million girls are at risk every year. It was recently been discovered that female genital mutilation is also practiced by some African immigrants in Europe, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and the United States.