- 619 million people world-wide (8% of the world’s population) had back pain in 2020 as reported by the World Health Organization, with 90% “cannot be confidently accounted for by another diagnosis such as an underlying disease, pathology or tissue damage.”
- 100 million American adults (40% of the American population) had back pain in 2019 as reported by the American National Center for Health Statistics.
- 57 more sobering stats about back pain can be found here.
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