Female genital mutilation: trends, economic burden of delay and basis for public health interventions

Table 1 High-low and no trends of FGM prevalence rates, p-value ≤ 0.10, and its compound annual growth rate, percentages, 1990–2020

Country	Income category	Start prevalence rate (%)	Start year	Last prevalence rate (%)	End year	Significance (P-value < 0,10)	CAGR (%)
High decreasing rates: 5 countries with the highest
Uganda	Low	5	1990	0,3	2016	*	-10,26
Togo	Low	50	1990	3	2017	*	-9,79
Ghana	Low-middle	30	1990	2,4	2018	*	-8,63
Benin	Low-middle	50	1990	9	2014	*	-6,81
Kenya	Low-middle	50	1990	21	2014	*	-3,55
Low decreasing rates: 5 countries with the lowest
Mali	Low	94	1990	89	2018	*	-0,21
Djibouti	Low-middle	98	1990	90	2019	*	-0,29
Gambia	Low	80	1990	73	2020	*	-0,30
Egypt	Low-middle	97	1990	87	2015	*	-0,43
Cote d’Ivoire	Low-middle	43	1990	37	2016	*	-0,61
No trends: 5 countries with the highest prevalence
Somalia	Low	98	1990	99	2020		0,03
Guinea	Low	60	1990	95	2018		1,64
Sudan	Low	89	1990	87	2014		-0,12
Sierra Leone	Low	90	1990	83	2019		-0,28
Eritrea	Low	90	1990	83	2010		-0,40

NOTE: The column Significance shows the result from the linear regression to show a trendline with a single asterisk used to express P ≤ 0.10. And CAGR stands for compound annual growth rate that is another measure to show an average year-change

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