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Some Statistics
Published Online:15 Apr 2005https://doi.org/10.1176/pn.40.8.00400008a
The Borderline Personality Disorder Resource Center, which is affiliated with New York-Presbyterian Hospital, disseminates information about borderline personality disorder, including statistics on prevalence rates. Among those statistics:
Approximately 10 million Americans, or 2 percent of the general population, have borderline personality disorder. | |||||
Between 75 percent and 90 percent of people diagnosed with borderline personality disorder are women. | |||||
Ten percent of psychiatric outpatients and 20 percent of psychiatric inpatients are diagnosed with borderline personality disorder. | |||||
