82% of the World’s Men are
Intactby Mary G. Ray ©1997, All Rights Reserved
82% of the World’s Men are
Intact
"It may well be that society's greatest
madness seems normal to
itself."
Allan Bloom, The Closing of the American
Mind
There are 23 medically advanced nations. The U.S. is the only nation which routinely circumcises nearly 63% of its newborn males. Our country represents less than 1/20th of the world population, yet it performs more than half of all infant circumcisions worldwide. If the foreskin is so prone to problems, why haven't other advanced nations adopted routine circumcision? One can't help but wonder why the U.S. is the only medically advanced nation that performs routine infant circumcisions without any medical indication.
Routine Infant Circumcision is limited to English speaking countries. The practice was intoduced to the U.S. through England, but they abandoned it nearly 50 years ago, practicing it now at the rate of only 1%. The rate is 3% in New Zealand, 10% in Australia and 20% to 25% in Canada. RIC is not offered in most non-English speaking countries. It never caught on in Europe, Asia, South or Central America. If the majority of men elsewhere in the world were having medical problems because their penises were left intact, wouldn’t these countries begin the practice?
Worldwide Statistics
The population of the United States is 260 Million. The entire world population is 5 Billion, 700 Million. Out of those, 2 Billion, 647 Million are males currently living. 18% of them are circumcised.
Of the world's male population, the breakdown
of the circumcised and intact are:
79 million American
infant circs
9 million American
child or adult circs
13 million Canada,
UK, New Zealand & Australia infant circs
27 million rest of
world infant circs
44 million child or
adult circs other parts of world
315 million Muslim
child/adolescent circumcisions
487 million = TOTAL
MEN CIRCUMCISED WORLDWIDE (18%)
2 billion 160 million = TOTAL MEN INTACT WORLDWIDE
(82%)
2 billion 647 million = Total Men Living Worldwide
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Out of the Worldwide Total of 487 Million Circumcised Men:
65% occur as Muslim cultural circumcisions
15% occur in other countries
3% occur in other English speaking countries
17% occur in the U.S.
**Above statistics complied by Demographics International
U.S. Statistics
According to the National Center for Health Statistics in Washington, D.C., the latest figures on circumcision for the four basic regions of the U.S. as of 1994 (the latest reported date) are:
Northeast
69.6%
Midwest
80.1%
South 64.7%
West 34.2%
Average for entire U.S. is 62.7%
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Last Revised: 5/22/97