Statistics by Country for Urinary Incontinence

Prevalance of Urinary Incontinence:

13 million adults (NIDDK); 1 in 10 over 65 (NWHIC).

Prevalance Rate for Urinary Incontinence:

approx 1 in 20 or 4.78% or 13 million people in USA [about data]

Extrapolation of Prevalence Rate of Urinary Incontinence to Countries and Regions:

WARNING! EXTRAPOLATION ONLY! NOT BASED ON COUNTRY-SPECIFIC DATA SOURCES. The following table attempts to extrapolate the above prevalence rate for Urinary Incontinence to the populations of various countries and regions. These prevalence extrapolations for Urinary Incontinence are only estimates, based on applying the prevalence rates from the US (or a similar country) to the population of other countries, and therefore may have very limited relevance to the actual prevalence of Urinary Incontinence in any region:

About extrapolations of prevalence and incidence statistics for Urinary Incontinence:

WARNING! EXTRAPOLATED STATISTICS ONLY! Not based on data sources from individual countries. These statistics are calculated extrapolations of various prevalence or incidence rates against the populations of a particular country or region. The statistics used for prevalence/incidence of Urinary Incontinence are typically based on US, UK, Canadian or Australian prevalence or incidence statistics, which are then extrapolated using only the population of the other country. This extrapolation calculation is automated and does not take into account any genetic, cultural, environmental, social, racial or other differences across the various countries and regions for which the extrapolated Urinary Incontinence statistics below refer to. The extrapolation does not use data sources or statistics about any country other than its population. As such, these extrapolations may be highly inaccurate (especially for developing or third-world countries) and only give a general indication (or even a meaningless indication) as to the actual prevalence or incidence of Urinary Incontinence in that region. These statistics are presented only in the hope that they may be interesting to some people.

About prevalence and incidence statistics in general for Urinary Incontinence:

The word 'prevalence' of Urinary Incontinence usually means the estimated population of people who are managing Urinary Incontinence at any given time (i.e. people with Urinary Incontinence). The term 'incidence' of Urinary Incontinence means the annual diagnosis rate, or the number of new cases of Urinary Incontinence diagnosed each year (i.e. getting Urinary Incontinence). Hence, these two statistics types can differ: a short disease like flu can have high annual incidence but low prevalence, but a life-long disease like diabetes has a low annual incidence but high prevalence. For more information see about prevalence and incidence statistics.

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