New Caledonia
Partial50% circumcision prevalence
Prevalence of non-therapeutic male circumcision.
Research coverage
A transparent snapshot of what this file currently contains.
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Sources · Citations
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Verifications · Independent
0
Structured claims · Evidence-based
Jul 9, 2026
Last updated · partial
Required items still missing: M2. This file is a work in progress.
Research note: New Caledonia PARTIAL (permanently capped) 2026-07-13. Morris 2016 PMC4772313: 50% (confirmed 3-0 twice), consistent with Fiji (55%)/Vanuatu+Solomon Islands (95%) neighbouring figures. DISTINCTIVE: genuinely mixed population (Kanak ~40%/European ~24%/Wallisian-Futunan/Tahitian/Vietnamese/Indonesian) but NO source confirms a Kanak traditional rite OR a Wallisian/Futunan tradition specifically (both explicit honest gaps). No French national or NC-specific customary-law statute found. No verified harm case (honest gap). **THIRD PERMANENT-PARTIAL COUNTRY/TERRITORY IN THIS DATASET (joining eh Western Sahara + tm Turkmenistan)**: adultPrevalencePct deliberately left NULL - NO official HIV percentage has EVER been published for New Caledonia by any source (World Bank/UNAIDS SH.DYN.AIDS.ZS has zero data for it; Sante publique France's national prevalence methodology applies to metropolitan France + DROM but NOT to New Caledonia, a COM with different statistical status). Only a raw case count exists (~309 PLHIV 2025, up from 291 in 2023/260 in 2003, ~10 new diagnoses/yr) - deliberately NOT converted to a percentage since no current official population denominator/methodology exists to support one reliably. This is a genuine structural data gap, NOT a seeding bug - do not fabricate a percentage to "fix" this. UNREGULATED. NOT VMMC priority. Sources #1526-1533. THIRD of Batch 5 (but will show PARTIAL not DEEP_BUILT in the coverage refresh due to the null HIV field, per deriveStatus hard-requiring hasHiv).
Research claims
Short, testable claims backed by evidence and categorised for clarity.
No structured research claims have been added for New Caledonia yet.
Legal status
UnregulatedThis research did not locate a French national statute or a New Caledonia-specific customary-law provision addressing non-therapeutic male circumcision. This research did not independently verify New Caledonia's female genital mutilation legal status either. Female genital mutilation is a separate matter and must not be conflated with male circumcision.
Medical & HIV context
no
Circumcision in newborns
Non-therapeutic (cultural practice)
no tradition (settler pop.)
Typical age
Benchmarks are international context — not a local complication rate.
Incident registry
No verified incidents are currently recorded for New Caledonia.
This absence should not be read as proof that harm does not occur — only that no verified, sourced case has been documented in this database yet.