Adults living with pain worldwide (estimate)
20%
percent of adults, worldwide
“Estimates suggest that 20% of adults suffer from pain globally and 10% are newly diagnosed with chronic pain each year.”
Goldberg and McGee, Pain as a global public health priority, BMC Public Health 2011, 2011-10-06
- Kind of source
- Peer-reviewed study
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- 2026-11-06
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- Quote found at the source on 2026-11-06
- What to know
- A widely cited summary estimate from a public-health debate article, not a pooled analysis; it says pain, not strictly chronic pain. Use with the measured US figures.
- About
- Chronic pain
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Kept as evidence; no figure on the platform is computed from it yet.