Question

In 2019, the National Health Interview Survey estimated that

50,200,000 people (existing cases) report living with chronic pain in the United States. The total population of the United States in 2019 was 328,239,523 people. What was the prevalence of chronic pain in the United States in 2019? Show your answer as a percentage or number of cases per 100,000 people.

Answer 1

Answer: To calculate the prevalence of chronic pain in the United States in 2019, we need to divide the number of people reporting living with chronic pain by the total population and then multiply by 100 to express the result as a percentage. We can then also express the prevalence as a number of cases per 100,000 people.

Prevalence of chronic pain = (Number of people with chronic pain / Total population) x 100

Prevalence of chronic pain = (50,200,000 / 328,239,523) x 100

Prevalence of chronic pain = 15.29%

Therefore, the prevalence of chronic pain in the United States in 2019 was 15.29%. This can also be expressed as 15,290 cases per 100,000 people.

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