Bulimia Nervosa Statistics (UK)

Bulimia Nervosa is an eating disorder that mostly affects women, although like any other eating disorder, it can affect anyone at any age.

Here are some bulimia nervosa statistics from various UK organisations, which were all obtained from their corresponding websites:

Mind:
Approximately 1-2 percent of women in the UK suffer from bulimia.

Beat:
Every year there are as many as 18 new cases of bulimia nervosa per 100,000 population per year.

Between 1 and 3 percent of young women are thought to be bulimic at any given moment in time.

Cases of bulimia nervosa are rarely seen in people under the age of 13.

The Royal College of Psychiatrists:
Bulimia nervosa commonly begins in the mid-teenage years.

Approximately 4 percent of women suffer with bulimia during their lifetime, but it is less common in men.

More girls than boys experience bulimia.

NHS National Library for Health:
The average age of onset of bulimia is 18-19 years.

Bulimia affects mainly women between the ages of 16 and 40, and is most likely to begin at about 19 years of age.

According to some studies, as many as 8 percent of women suffer from bulimia at some stage in their life, and it affects about 5 percent of female college students.

People who have close relatives with bulimia are four times more likely to develop the disease than people who do not.

Studies indicate that about 5 out of 10 people with bulimia are healthy 10 years after diagnosis; while 2 out of 10 still have bulimia and 3 out of 10 are partially recovered.

Approximately 5 percent of bulimia sufferers go on to develop anorexia nervosa.

Unlike anorexia, it is not usual to die from the severe health effects of bulimia.

UK Parliament - Publications:
The following table shows the number of diagnosed and admitted cases of bulimia in NHS hospitals, England, from 1996-97 onwards. Please note these figures represent individual cases and not the actual number of patients (some patients will have had more than one admission).

	Bulimia
2005-06	23
2004-05	23
2003-04	22
2002-03	32
2001-02	26
2000-01	19
1999-2000	28
1998-99	24
1997-98	46
1996-97	49

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