{"id":11899,"date":"2020-06-03T17:49:55","date_gmt":"2020-06-03T21:49:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.singlecare.com\/blog\/?p=11899"},"modified":"2026-03-27T15:19:44","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T19:19:44","slug":"eating-disorder-statistics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.singlecare.com\/blog\/news\/eating-disorder-statistics\/","title":{"rendered":"Eating disorder statistics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><a href=\"#what-are-eating-disorders\">What are eating disorders?<\/a> | <a href=\"#eating-disorder-prevalence\">How common are eating disorders?<\/a> | <a href=\"#eating-disorders-worldwide\">Eating disorder statistics worldwide<\/a> | <a href=\"#eating-disorder-stats-by-sex\">Eating disorder statistics by sex<\/a> | <a href=\"#eating-disorder-stats-by-age\">Eating disorder statistics by age<\/a> | <a href=\"#binge-eating-disorder-stats\">Binge eating disorder statistics<\/a> | <a href=\"#eating-disorder-health-implications\">Eating disorders and overall health<\/a> | <a href=\"#eating-disorder-treatment\">Eating disorder treatment<\/a> | <a href=\"#research\">Research<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Everyone has a different relationship with food. For some, it is a source of comfort, indulgence, or sustenance. Others can have a negative and even damaging association with food. Eating disorders are serious mental health problems, signifying a person\u2019s unhealthy relationship with food. The cause of eating disorders include the effects of another mental illness, genetics, media, negative body image, and trauma.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2 id=\"what-are-eating-disorders\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What are eating disorders?<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Eating disorders are illnesses that affect a person\u2019s relationship with food and body image. People with eating disorders have excessive thoughts of food, their body weight or shape, and how to control their intake of food. Types of eating disorders include:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Anorexia nervosa<\/b>, which<b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is characterized by weight loss or maintenance by extreme dieting, starvation, or too much exercise.<\/span><\/b><\/li>\n<li><strong>Binge eating<\/strong>, which <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">means to frequently consume an unusually large amount of food in one sitting.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><strong>Bulimia nervosa<\/strong>, with\u00a0<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">symptoms include purging, taking laxatives, exercising, or fasting to avoid weight gain after binge eating.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cOne may experience this as an anxious state of mind, a depressed mood, or may have a mix of anxiety and depression,\u201d says <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.annahindell.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Anna Hindell<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, LCSW-R, a psychotherapist based in New York. \u201cTurning to control and restricting food intake or becoming addicted to binging and purging is <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">always a symptom or effect of an underlying feeling that the person lives with. It is usually some unresolved feeling related to low self-esteem, lack of worth, or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.singlecare.com\/blog\/news\/ptsd-statistics\/\">repressed trauma<\/a>. People turn to the attempt at controlling food intake or eating their emotions instead of dealing with the underlying problem, if untreated.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\t\t<div class=\"singlecare-dynamic-newsletter-wrapper sin-newsletter-wrapper\">\n\t\t\t<span class=\"heading\">Get our mental health newsletter<\/span>\n\t\t\t<form class=\"form-wrapper\" data-newsletter-form=\"1\" data-subsource=\"Mental Health Newsletter\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"input-wrapper\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<label for=\"dynamic-email\">Email<\/label>\n\t\t\t\t\t<input type=\"email\" id=\"dynamic-email\" class=\"email\" required>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"input-wrapper\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<input class=\"submit-form-btn\" type=\"submit\" value=\"Click to sign up\">\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/form>\n\t\t\t<p class=\"success-message\" aria-live=\"polite\"><\/p>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/span><\/p>\n<h2 id=\"eating-disorder-prevalence\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">How common are eating disorders?<\/span><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Approximately 30 million Americans live with an eating disorder. (National Association of Anorexia Nervosa and Associated Disorders)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Eating disorders are the third most common chronic illness among adolescent females in the United States. (<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">International Journal of Adolescent Medicine and Health<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, 2007)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">10 million men in the U.S. will suffer from an eating disorder in their lifetime. (National Eating Disorders Association)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The lifetime prevalence of eating disorders is highest among those with a binge eating disorder (5.5% compared to 2% for bulimia and 1.2% for anorexia). (<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Biological Psychiatry<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, 2007)<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3 id=\"eating-disorders-worldwide\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Eating disorder statistics worldwide<\/span><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Global eating disorder prevalence increased from 3.4% to 7.8% between 2000 and 2018. (<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, 2019)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">70 million people internationally live with eating disorders. (National Eating Disorders Association)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Japan has the highest prevalence of eating disorders in Asia, followed by Hong Kong, Singapore, Taiwan, and South Korea. (International Journal of Eating Disorders, 2015)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Austria had the highest rate of prevalence in Europe at 1.55% as of 2012. (<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Psychology Today, 2013)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Almost half of all Americans know someone with an eating disorder. (South Carolina Department of Mental Health)<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3 id=\"eating-disorder-stats-by-sex\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Eating disorder statistics by sex<\/span><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Eating disorders were more prevalent among young women (3.8%) than men (1.5%) in the U.S. as of 2001-2004. (<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, 2010)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A quarter of those with anorexia are male. Men have an increased risk of dying because they are diagnosed much later than women. This could be in part due to the misconception that men do not experience eating disorders. (Eating Disorders Resource Catalogue, 2014)<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3 id=\"eating-disorder-stats-by-age\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Eating disorder statistics by age\u00a0<\/span><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Globally, 13% of women older than 50 experience disordered eating behaviors. (<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">International Journal of Eating Disorders<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, 2012)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The median age of eating disorder onset was 21 years old for binge eating disorder and 18 years old for anorexia and bulimia nervosa. (<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, 2010)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The lifetime prevalence of eating disorders in the U.S. was 2.7% among adolescents as of 2001-2004. (<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, 2010)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Of adolescents with eating disorders, the 17- to 18-year-old age group had the highest prevalence (3%). (<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, 2010)<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Researchers followed a group of 496 adolescent girls in a U.S. city over a span of eight years and found that by the age of 20:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">More than 5% of the girls met the criteria for anorexia, bulimia, or binge eating disorder.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">More than 13% of the girls had experienced an eating disorder when including non-specific eating disorder symptoms.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">(Journal of Abnormal Psychology<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, 2010)<\/span><\/p>\n<h3 id=\"binge-eating-disorder-stats\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Binge eating disorder statistics<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Binge eating disorder is characterized by frequent episodes of consuming unusually large amounts of food in a relatively short time. A person with binge eating disorder often feels binge eating is outside of his or her control and may feel shame because of it.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Binge eating disorder is the most common eating disorder in the U.S. (National Eating Disorders Association)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Nearly 3% of adults experience binge eating disorder in their lifetime. (<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Biological Psychiatry<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, 2007)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">American women (3.5%) and men (2%) experience a binge eating disorder during their lifetime, making binge eating disorder three times more common than anorexia and bulimia combined. (<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Biological Psychiatry<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, 2007)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Less than half (43.6%) of people with binge eating disorder will receive treatment. (<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Osteopathic Family Physician<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, 2013)<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2 id=\"eating-disorder-health-implications\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The impact of eating disorders<\/span><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">About one person dies every hour as a direct result of an eating disorder. (Eating Disorders Coalition, 2016)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Eating disorders have the highest mortality rate of any mental illness. (Smink, F. E., van Hoeken, D., &amp; Hoek, H. W., 2012)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Anorexia is the most deadly mental illness. One study found that people with anorexia are 56 times more likely to commit suicide than people without an eating disorder. (Eating Disorders Coalition, 2016)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Up to half of the people with an eating disorder misused alcohol or illicit drugs at a rate five times higher than the general population. (National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse, 2003)\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The vast majority (97%) of people hospitalized for an eating disorder have a co-occurring health condition. Mood disorders, like major depression, are the primary underlying condition followed by anxiety disorders, such as obsessive-compulsive disorder, post-traumatic stress disorder, and substance use disorder. (<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Eating Disorders: The Journal of Treatment and Prevention, <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">2014)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Diabetes patients who have an eating disorder, struggle with controlling their diabetes, which exposes them to diabetic complications such as heart disease, stroke, neuropathy, loss of vision, and kidney disease.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>RELATED: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.singlecare.com\/blog\/news\/anxiety-statistics\/\">Anxiety statistics<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<h2 id=\"eating-disorder-treatment\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Treating eating disorders<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Due to the effect of eating disorders on the body and mind, treatment options usually include psychological and nutritional counseling and monitoring, according to the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationaleatingdisorders.org\/treatment\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">National Eating Disorders Association<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThere are various models of treatment for eating disorders,&#8221; Hindell says. &#8220;There are residential programs, hospital programs, day treatment programs. For the majority of people who have eating disorders, and the people I see are high functioning individuals, usually very perfectionistic types, who do well with a mix of psychotherapy, sessions with a nutritionist, and at times, psychopharmacology.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">With eating disorder treatment, 60% of patients make a full recovery. However, only 1 in 10 people with an eating disorder will seek and receive treatment.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What are eating disorders? | How common are eating disorders? | Eating disorder statistics worldwide | Eating disorder statistics by sex | Eating disorder statistics by age | Binge eating disorder statistics | Eating disorders and overall health | Eating disorder treatment | Research Everyone has a different relationship with food. 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