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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Nov 21.
Published in final edited form as: Am J Psychiatry. 2015 Jun 5;172(7):647–656. doi: 10.1176/appi.ajp.2015.14091185

TABLE 1.

Lifetime and 12-Month Prevalence of Separation Anxiety Disorder Stratified by Gender and Country Income

Lifetime Prevalence
12-Month Prevalence
Total
Male
Female
Total
Male
Female
Sample Size (N)
Country and Country Income % SE % SE % SE % SE % SE % SE Male Female
All countries 4.8 0.1 4.0 0.2 5.6* 0.2 1.0 0.1 0.8 0.1 1.3* 0.1 16,869 22,124
Low-/lower-middle income 5.5 0.4 4.5 0.4 6.4* 0.5 1.3 0.2 0.9 0.2 1.7 0.4 2,622 3,472
Colombia 9.8 0.8 8.1 1.1 11.3* 1.2 2.7 0.5 1.9 0.5 3.3 0.9 885 1,496
Nigeria 0.2 0.1 0.2 0.1 0.2 0.2 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 614 675
People’s Republic of China-Beijing/
Shanghai
1.3 0.5 0.7 0.4 2.1 1.0 0.2 0.1 0.0 0.0 0.4 0.2 326 297
Peru 6.1 0.7 5.6 0.8 6.6 0.9 1.2 0.2 0.9 0.2 1.4 0.3 797 1,004
Upper-middle income 4.7 0.2 4.0 0.3 5.3* 0.3 1.2 0.1 1.0 0.2 1.4 0.2 5,334 7,271
Brazil 7.7 0.4 6.7 0.6 8.6* 0.6 2.0 0.3 1.7 0.4 2.3 0.3 2,187 2,850
Bulgaria 1.4 0.4 1.5 0.8 1.2 0.3 0.4 0.3 0.6 0.5 0.2 0.1 951 1,282
Lebanon 6.9 1.3 4.9 1.5 9.0 1.8 1.9 0.5 1.1 0.5 2.7 0.8 251 365
Mexico 4.5 0.4 3.7 0.8 5.2 0.5 0.9 0.2 0.7 0.2 1.1 0.2 853 1,509
Romania 0.9 0.3 0.9 0.4 0.9 0.3 0.3 0.1 0.2 0.1 0.3 0.2 1,092 1,265
High-income 4.7 0.2 3.7 0.2 5.6* 0.3 0.9 0.1 0.7 0.1 1.0 0.1 8,913 11,381
Belgium 1.4 0.3 0.7 0.3 2.1* 0.4 0.1 0.1 0.0 0.0 0.3 0.2 599 591
France 3.5 0.5 3.1 0.7 3.9 1.0 0.9 0.3 0.4 0.2 1.4 0.7 692 772
Germany 2.0 0.4 1.5 0.4 2.6 0.6 0.4 0.2 0.5 0.3 0.4 0.3 806 912
Italy 1.5 0.4 0.6 0.3 2.3* 0.5 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.1 0.1 1,171 1,209
The Netherlands 3.0 0.6 2.0 0.8 4.0 1.1 0.6 0.3 0.5 0.3 0.7 0.6 472 637
Northern Ireland 5.1 0.5 5.1 0.8 5.2 0.6 0.4 0.1 0.5 0.2 0.4 0.1 822 1,164
Portugal 6.4 0.8 5.7 1.5 7.2 0.7 1.2 0.3 0.8 0.4 1.5 0.4 759 1,301
Spain 1.2 0.3 1.1 0.4 1.4 0.4 0.3 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.4 0.2 1,210 1,485
United States 9.2 0.4 7.4 0.5 10.8* 0.6 1.9 0.2 1.7 0.3 2.1 0.2 2,382 3,310
*

p < 0.05 (two-sided test).