Share of the population with bipolar disorder
- Description
Estimated prevalence of bipolar disorder in individuals, per 100 people.
- Data source
- IHME, Global Burden of Disease (2025) – with major processing by Our World in Data
- Unit
- %
- Date range
- 1990-2023
- Last updated
- 2026-02-07
- Next expected update
- 2030-02-06
- Managed by
- Fiona Spooner
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Data sources
IHME, Global Burden of Disease – Global Burden of Disease – Mental Health Prevalence
IHME, Global Burden of Disease – Global Burden of Disease – Mental Health Prevalence
The Global Burden of Disease (GBD) study provides a comprehensive assessment of global health trends. This dataset contains the prevalence of mental health conditions for a range of age-groups across males and females.
"Global Burden of Disease Collaborative Network. Global Burden of Disease Study 2023 (GBD 2023). Seattle, United States: Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME), 2025. Available from https://vizhub.healthdata.org/gbd-results/."How to cite
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“Data Page: Share of the population with bipolar disorder”, part of the following publication: Saloni Dattani, Lucas Rodés-Guirao, Hannah Ritchie, and Max Roser (2023) - “Mental Health”. Data adapted from IHME, Global Burden of Disease. Retrieved from https://archive.ourworldindata.org/20260910-005924/grapher/bipolar-disorder-prevalence.html [online resource] (archived on September 10, 2026).How to cite this data
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IHME, Global Burden of Disease (2025) – with major processing by Our World in DataFull citation
IHME, Global Burden of Disease (2025) – with major processing by Our World in Data. “Share of the population with bipolar disorder – IHME” [dataset]. IHME, Global Burden of Disease, “Global Burden of Disease – Mental Health Prevalence” [original data]. Retrieved September 19, 2026 from https://archive.ourworldindata.org/20260910-005924/grapher/bipolar-disorder-prevalence.html (archived on September 10, 2026).All data produced by third-party providers and made available by Our World in Data are subject to the license terms from the original providers. Our work would not be possible without the data providers we rely on, so we ask you to always cite them appropriately. This is crucial to allow data providers to continue doing their work, enhancing, maintaining and updating valuable data.
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