Bulletin of the World Health Organization

Estimating the obstetric costs of female genital mutilation in six African countries

Taghreed Adam, Heli Bathija, David Bishai, Yung-Ting Bonnenfant, Manal Darwish, Dale Huntington, Elise Johansen & for the FGM Cost Study Group of the World Health Organization

Volume 88, Number 4, April 2010, 281-288

Table 4. Future years of life lost as a result of incident female genital mutilation cases for the 15-year-old population in six African countries

Country	FGM type	No. of women aged 15 years^a	FGM prevalence in women aged < 20 years	No. of women aged 15 years, by FGM type	Future YLL per incident case^b	Future YLL for current female population aged 15 years
Burkina Faso	0	148 400	0.227	33 746	Reference	Reference
	1		0.256	37 946	0.01	379
	2		0.391	57 965	0.09	5 217
	3		0.126	18 728	0.31	5 806
	All					11 402
Ghana	0	245 600	0.686	168 555	Reference	Reference
	1		0.074	18 199	0.01	182
	2		0.222	54 572	0.06	3 274
	3		0.017	4 273	0.19	812
	All					4 268
Kenya	0	418 400	0.431	180 498	Reference	Reference
	1		0.156	65 061	0.01	651
	2		0.273	114 265	0.06	6 856
	3		0.140	58 618	0.21	12 310
	All					19 816
Nigeria	0	1 448 400	0.138	199 590	Reference	Reference
	1		0.764	1 107 157	0.02	22 143
	2		0.096	138 467	0.09	12 462
	3		0.002	3 186	0.27	860
	All					35 466
Senegal	0	135 000	0.104	14 081	Reference	Reference
	1		0.254	34 290	0.01	343
	2		0.623	84 146	0.08	6 732
	3		0.018	2 484	0.26	646
	All					7 720
Sudan	0	374 400	0.323	120 856	Reference	Reference
	1		0.066	24 710	0.01	247
	2		0.047	17 709	0.07	1 240
	3		0.564	211 087	0.23	48 550
	All					50 037
Total		2 770 200				128 709

FGM, female genital mutilation; YLL, years of life lost.
^a From United Nations life table for 2005.
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^b Heterogeneity between countries in future years of life lost per incident case of FGM is due to differences between countries in the age-specific fertility rate and life expectancy.