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|accessdate=2022-08-13
}}</ref> the American male population remains largely [[circumcised]] in most states and about 900,000 male newborns receive non-therapeutic [[circumcision]] every year.
Despite the financially self-serving promotional efforts of the Circumcision Industry, the incidence of non-therapeutic [[circumcision]] of infant boys was reported to have continued its slow decline to 52.1 percent in 2016.<ref name="jacobson2021">{{REFjournal
|last=Jacobson
|first=Deborah L.
|init=
|author-link=
|last2=Balmert
|first2=Lauren C.
|init2=
|author2-link=
|last3=Holl
|first3=Jane L.
|init3=
|author3-link=
|last4=Rosoklija
|first4=Ilina
|init4=
|author4-link=
|last5=Davis
|first5=Matthew M.
|init5=
|author5-link=
|last6=Johnson
|first6Emilie K.
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|etal=no
|title=Nationwide Circumcision Trends: 2003 to 2016
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|language=
|journal=J Urol
|location=
|date=2021-01
|volume=205
|issue=1
|article=
|pages=257-63
|url=https://www.auajournals.org/doi/abs/10.1097/JU.0000000000001316
|pubmedID=32716676
|pubmedCID=
|DOI=10.1097/JU.0000000000001316
|accessdate=2023-09-26
}}</ref> Further gradual decline is expected.
=== Africa ===