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'''Incidence of circumcision''' is the percentage of newborn boys who currently are being [[circumcised]].
====Long-term declining trend====
The incidence of non-therapeutic neonatal [[circumcision]] hit its peak at 85-90 percent in 19801965. <ref name="laumann1997>{{REFjournal |last=Laumann |first= |init=EO |author-link= |last2=Masi |first2= |init2=CM |author2-link= |last3=Zuckerman |first3= |init3=EW |author3-link= |etal=no |title=Circumcision in the United States. Prevalence, prophylactic effects, and sexual practice |trans-title= |journal=JAMA |date=1997-04-02 |volume=277 |issue=13 |pages=1052-7 |url=https://www.cirp.org/library/general/laumann/ |archived= |quote= |pubmedID=9091693 |pubmedCID= |DOI= |doi= |accessdate=2025-09-2309-23}}</ref> It has been slowly declining ever since.
Peter Moore (2015) reported that the incidence of circumcision was 55 percent.<ref name="moore2015"/>