Statistics by Country for Borderline Personality Disorder

Prevalance of Borderline Personality Disorder:

2 percent of adults (NIMH)

Prevalance Rate for Borderline Personality Disorder:

approx 1 in 50 or 2.00% or 5.4 million people in USA [about data]

Extrapolation of Prevalence Rate of Borderline Personality Disorder to Countries and Regions:

WARNING! EXTRAPOLATION ONLY! NOT BASED ON COUNTRY-SPECIFIC DATA SOURCES. The following table attempts to extrapolate the above prevalence rate for Borderline Personality Disorder to the populations of various countries and regions. These prevalence extrapolations for Borderline Personality Disorder are only estimates, based on applying the prevalence rates from the US (or a similar country) to the population of other countries, and therefore may have very limited relevance to the actual prevalence of Borderline Personality Disorder in any region:

Incidence (annual) of Borderline Personality Disorder:

3,019 annual cases in Victora 1996 (DHS-VIC)

Incidence Rate for Borderline Personality Disorder: approx 1 in 1,510 or 0.07% or 180,074 people in USA [about data] Extrapolation of Incidence Rate for Borderline Personality Disorder to Countries and Regions: WARNING! EXTRAPOLATION ONLY. NOT BASED ON COUNTRY-SPECIFIC DATA SOURCES. The following table attempts to extrapolate the above incidence rate for Borderline Personality Disorder to the populations of various countries and regions. As discussed above, these incidence extrapolations for Borderline Personality Disorder are only estimates and may have very limited relevance to the actual incidence of Borderline Personality Disorder in any region:

About extrapolations of prevalence and incidence statistics for Borderline Personality Disorder:

WARNING! EXTRAPOLATED STATISTICS ONLY! Not based on data sources from individual countries. These statistics are calculated extrapolations of various prevalence or incidence rates against the populations of a particular country or region. The statistics used for prevalence/incidence of Borderline Personality Disorder are typically based on US, UK, Canadian or Australian prevalence or incidence statistics, which are then extrapolated using only the population of the other country. This extrapolation calculation is automated and does not take into account any genetic, cultural, environmental, social, racial or other differences across the various countries and regions for which the extrapolated Borderline Personality Disorder statistics below refer to. The extrapolation does not use data sources or statistics about any country other than its population. As such, these extrapolations may be highly inaccurate (especially for developing or third-world countries) and only give a general indication (or even a meaningless indication) as to the actual prevalence or incidence of Borderline Personality Disorder in that region. These statistics are presented only in the hope that they may be interesting to some people.

About prevalence and incidence statistics in general for Borderline Personality Disorder:

The word 'prevalence' of Borderline Personality Disorder usually means the estimated population of people who are managing Borderline Personality Disorder at any given time (i.e. people with Borderline Personality Disorder). The term 'incidence' of Borderline Personality Disorder means the annual diagnosis rate, or the number of new cases of Borderline Personality Disorder diagnosed each year (i.e. getting Borderline Personality Disorder). Hence, these two statistics types can differ: a short disease like flu can have high annual incidence but low prevalence, but a life-long disease like diabetes has a low annual incidence but high prevalence. For more information see about prevalence and incidence statistics.

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