Monday, February 19, 2018

Prevalence Rates

From Wikipedia:
"Prevalence of circumcision"

The prevalence of circumcision is the percentage of males in a given population who have been circumcised. The rates vary widely by country, from 1% in Japan, to 2% in Spain and Sweden, to 58% in the United States, to more than 80% in Muslim countries. Worldwide it is estimated that 25% to 33% of males are circumcised, Male circumcision is nearly universal in the Muslim world and in Israel due to the religious beliefs of the majority of Muslims and Jews; however, some non-Muslim groups living within Islamic countries, such as Armenians and Assyrians, do not practice it. It is prevalent in some Islamic countries in southeast Asia such as Indonesia and Malaysia; however, the WHO states that there is "little non-religious circumcision in Asia, with the exceptions of the Republic of Korea and the Philippines". In parts of Africa it is often practiced as part of tribal or religious customs. The prevalence of circumcision is also high in the United States, although there has reportedly been a decrease in routine neonatal circumcision in recent years. In contrast, it is relatively rare in most of Europe, parts of southern Africa, most of Asia, Oceania and Latin America, constituting South America, Central America, the Caribbean and Mexico .Australia, Canada, Ireland, New Zealand and the United Kingdom are examples of countries that have seen a significant decline in male circumcision in recent decades, while there have been indications of increasing demand in southern Africa, partly for preventative reasons due to the HIV epidemic there.

Prevalence:

The Americas:


Canada:




United States.

Africa:


More than 80%
Angola, Algeria, Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Chad, Congo (Democratic Republic), Congo (Republic), Côte d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast), Djibouti, Egypt, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea-Bissau, Gabon, Guinea, Kenya, Liberia, Libya, Madagascar, Mali, Mauritania, Morocco, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Somalia, Tunisia, Togo.
Asia:


Between 60% and 80%

Kazakhstan, South Korea


More than 80%

Afghanistan, Azerbaijan, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Brunei, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Kuwait, Kyrgyzstan, Lebanon, Malaysia,Oman, Pakistan, Palestine, the Philippines,Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, United Arab Emirates, Yemen.

Europe:

Between 20% and 80%

Albania, Kosovo, Republic of Macedonia, and Bosnia and Herzegovina.[

Oceania;
Australia: 58%
New Zealand: 20%

^  I was surprised that Canada had a nation-wide prevalence of 32% and that most of the western part of the United States had dropped. ^



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