People living with psoriasis worldwide, 2021 (GBD 2021)
43 million
people, worldwide
“We found that the number of people living with psoriasis nearly doubled from 1990 to 2021, reaching 43 million cases globally, with 5.1 million new cases diagnosed in 2021 alone.”
- Kind of source
- Peer-reviewed study
- Read on
- 2026-11-07
- Daily check
- Quote found at the source on 2026-11-07
- What to know
- GBD 2021 modelled count (the authors include an IHME researcher). It is far below the WHO's 2016 'approximately 100 million' (who-psoriasis-prevalence-2016), which the same abstract still cites in its opening line.
- About
- Psoriasis
Used in
Kept as evidence; no figure on the platform is computed from it yet.