Table 2.
Lifetime and 12-month prevalence of psychotic experiences in the World Mental Health surveys
| Lifetime Any PEb | Lifetime Any HEc | Lifetime Any DEd | 12-month PE | Total Sample | ||
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| Income categorya | Country | n1e (%f, SE) | n1e (%f, SE) | n1e (%f, SE) | n1e (%f, SE) | Ng |
| Low and Lower-Middle | Colombia | 73 (7.5,1.2) | 68 (7.1,1.2) | 11 (0.9,0.3) | 25 (2.1,0.5) | 722 |
| Iraq | 51 (1.2,0.2) | 46 (1.1,0.2) | 13 (0.4,0.2) | 25 (0.7,0.2) | 4329 | |
| Nigeria | 39 (2.2,0.5) | 32 (1.7,0.4) | 16 (1.0,0.4) | 15 (1.0,0.4) | 1417 | |
| PRC-Shenzhen | 151 (5.3,0.8) | 116 (3.8,0.6) | 54 (1.8,0.4) | 45 (1.4,0.3) | 2468 | |
| Peru | 36 (6.4,1.4) | 33 (6.1,1.4) | 7 (1.1,0.4) | 18 (3.3,0.9) | 530 | |
| Total Low and Lower-Middle | 350 (3.2,0.3) | 295 (2.6,0.2) | 101 (0.9,0.1) | 128 (1.2,0.2) | 9466 | |
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| Upper-Middle | Brazil-Sao Paulo | 548 (14.9,0.9) | 471 (13.3,0.9) | 183 (3.6,0.3) | 230 (5.6,0.4) | 2922 |
| Lebanon | 37 (1.9,0.4) | 30 (1.6,0.4) | 14 (0.6,0.3) | 15 (0.9,0.4) | 1029 | |
| Mexico | 53 (4.1,1.0) | 49 (3.6,0.9) | 12 (0.8,0.4) | 22 (1.4,0.4) | 715 | |
| Romania | 24 (1.0,0.4) | 21 (0.9,0.4) | 5 (0.1,0.1) | 9 (0.3,0.1) | 2357 | |
| Total Upper-Middle | 662 (7.2,0.4) | 571 (6.4,0.4) | 214 (1.7,0.1) | 276 (2.7,0.2) | 7023 | |
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| High | Belgium | 32 (8.3,2.5) | 19 (5.0,1.6) | 20 (5.7,2.3) | 11 (4.1,2.4) | 319 |
| France | 27 (5.7,1.4) | 23 (4.9,1.3) | 7 (1.6,0.6) | 6 (1.3,0.7) | 301 | |
| Germany | 25 (2.8,0.5) | 16 (1.8,0.4) | 13 (1.3,0.3) | 6 (1.0,0.2) | 408 | |
| Italy | 38 (4.5,0.8) | 31 (3.5,1.0) | 16 (1.9,0.6) | 12 (1.3,0.5) | 617 | |
| Netherlands | 47 (10.8,2.5) | 41 (10.1,2.5) | 11 (1.6,0.5) | 13 (3.0,1.2) | 348 | |
| New Zealand | 724 (6.9,0.4) | 667 (6.5,0.4) | 134 (0.9,0.1) | 271 (2.4,0.2) | 7263 | |
| Portugal | 140 (5.2,0.7) | 106 (3.9,0.5) | 66 (2.6,0.5) | 43 (1.7,0.3) | 2053 | |
| Spain | 91 (6.7,1.5) | 77 (5.8,1.5) | 35 (1.4,0.4) | 19 (0.9,0.2) | 1159 | |
| United States | 249 (8.6,0.9) | 232 (8.2,0.9) | 41 (1.3,0.2) | 79 (2.8,0.4) | 2304 | |
| Total High | 1373 (6.8,0.3) | 1212 (6.2,0.3) | 343 (1.4,0.1) | 460 (2.2,0.2) | 14772 | |
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| All Countries | 2385 (5.8,0.2) | 2078 (5.2,0.2) | 658 (1.3,0.1) | 864 (2.0,0.1) | 31261 | |
a
Income = Based on World Bank country level of economic development (The World Bank. (2008). Data and Statistics. Accessed May 12, 2009 at: http://go.worldbank.org/D7SN0B8YU0);
b
PE = Psychotic experience (any of the six types);
c
HE = Hallucinatory experience (either of the two types);
d
DE = Delusional experience (any of the four types);
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n1 = Unweighted number of respondents who reported the PEs;
f
Prevalence estimates are based on weighted data;
g
N = The total unweighted number of respondents who were asked about PEs.