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Originally Posted by Thor
Id love to see some statistics on western nations on this practice, hell even Asian nations. My guess is the US is near the top, while Canada would be near the middle of the pack.
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Taking a quick look at wikipedia...
African nations seem to do it quite a bit. Likely has something to do with the AIDS thing. Seems on average between 50-80%, in some cases over 90%. Few exceptions there, though. Rwanda for example is 10%.
South America is really low. Seems most countries circumcise under 10% of newborns. Mexico is between 10%-30%. Lot's 'o foreskin down there.
The States is high... Says from 1999-2002 79% were snipped. 1970s 91%, 1980s 83%. Currently between 65-70%.
Asia, including Russia is apparently less than 20% with a few exceptions. Korea seems to love circumcision. I guess China and Japan fewer than 1%. But there are huge populations there.
Pretty much all of Europe is less than 20%. Places like Sweden for example, it's actually illegal to circumcise unless medically needed.
The middle east is extremely high. Religious reasons, clearly. Over 80% in a lot of places.
NZ and Australia are generally 20% or less, though in some areas it spikes to 50-50.
As for us Canadians seems to be around 31% of newborns are circumcised. Alberta and Ontario have the highest rates, around 40%. Nova Scotia and Nunavut the lowest, less than 10%. Quebec is low too, at 12%.
World wide, it says about 30% of males are circumcised.