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}}</ref> It is outlawed around the world, including in many of the countries in which it is most heavily concentrated.<ref>[[UNICEF ]] 2013, pp. 8-9</ref> Found mainly in Africa, Asia, and the Middle East, the practice is divided by the WHO into [[Female genital mutilation#Types|four types]]:<ref name=WHO2019>{{REFweb

{{Rank |rows={{TRC|tableno=2|ignore=2}} |header-lines=2 |caption='''Prevalence of genital cutting by sex, age and country'''<ref group="Notes">Mostly all international data, including that republished by the other two most cited sources here, Morris et al. (2016)<!--<ref name=":3"/>--> and [[UNICEF]],<!--<ref name=":8"/>--> for circumcision and FGM respectively, is from [[USAID]]'s [[Demographic and Health Surveys]]. Wherever possible, the primary, rather than the secondary, source is cited. The prevalence rates reflect the most recent surveys available, and are adjusted for sample biases against age distributions. Cells aggregating data across sexes and ages are without citation and are estimated from segmented data along with each country's age distributions and [[List of countries by sex ratio|sex ratio]]. Data missing or unavailable for FGM is denoted by {{N/a}}. Data without citation for prevalence of circumcision among boys aged 0–14 is copied from sourced data for males aged 15 and older, as mostly all ritual circumcisions are done either in childhood, right before puberty (e.g. Islam) or days after birth (e.g. Islam and Judaism).</ref>}}

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