Women aged 15 to 49 living with polycystic ovary syndrome worldwide, 2021

65.77 million

people, worldwide, women aged 15 to 49

“In 2021, the prevalence cases of PCOS worldwide were 65.77 million, the incidence cases were 1,175.07 thousand, and the DALYs cases were 576.05 thousand.”

Frontiers in Public Health 2025, Global burden of polycystic ovary syndrome among women of childbearing age, 1990-2021 (GBD 2021), 2025-03

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GBD 2021 modelled estimate for women of childbearing age only.

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