Kurdistan Ministry of Health's data shows that forty-one percent women are circumcised in the region.

The ministry carried out a survey July 2010 and released the results after the start of a campaign to raise awareness on violence against women in Kurdistan.

According to Rudaw.net the survey’s results show that none of the participants in Dohuk, Kurdistan’s smallest of the three provinces, were circumcised while the highest rate of FGM was in Sulaimani.

Erbil, Kurdistan region's capital, came between Sulaimani and Dohuk. According to the survey, most of the women were circumcised while they were under five years old. 

Jamil Ali Rashid, the director general of health affairs at the ministry of health, said “the survey’s results are totally correct and credible because the participants were given clear questions and special teams examined the women who participated in the survey after their consent was secured.” 

A campaign to end FGM practices in Kurdistan was launched in February 2010 by 51 non-governmental organizations.