How Many people are anorexic in the US?

Answer 1

Roughly 1 in every 250 American suffers from anorexia.

The three main types of eating disorders are anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, and binge-eating disorder.

In their lifetime, an estimated 0.6 percent of the adult population in the U.S. will suffer from anorexia, 1.0 percent from bulimia, and 2.8 percent from a binge eating disorder. 14

Women are much more likely than males to develop an eating disorder. They are three times as likely to experience anorexia (0.9 percent of women vs. 0.3 percent of men) and bulimia (1.5 percent of women vs. 0.5 percent of men) during their life. They are also 75 percent more likely to have a binge eating disorder (3.5 percent of women vs. 2.0 percent of men).14

The mortality rate among people with anorexia has been estimated at 0.56 percent per year, or approximately 5.6 percent per decade, which is about 12 times higher than the annual Death Rate due to all causes of death among females ages 15-24 in the general population.

Answer 2

Roughly 8 million people in the United States suffer from anorexia, or anorexia-like eating disorders.

Answer 3

About 1 in every 200 to 250 women has anorexia. The estimated population of the United States (July 2008) was just over 300 million. So that's roughly 1.35 million anorexia sufferers or so.

Answer 4

An estimated 9 million women and 1 million men in the US have anorexia or anorexic-like tendencies.

Answer 5

About 8 million.