Table 4.

Frequency of lifetime occurrence of psychotic experiences (PEs) among respondents who reported ever having one or more PE in the World Mental Health surveys

Sample	Type	PE frequency metric
		Row Sample Size	1	2–5	6–10	11–100	101 or more
		na	%b (SE)	%b (SE)	%b(SE)	%b(SE)	%b(SE)
All countries (except for ESEMed#)	HE - visual	1379	31.9 (1.7)	32.0 (1.7)	10.5 (1.0)	18.7 (1.4)	6.7 (0.9)
	HE - auditory (verbal)	965	20.8 (1.9)	31.7 (2.2)	11.1 (1.3)	26.5 (1.9)	9.9 (1.3)
	Any HEc	1871	30.4 (1.4)	32.4 (1.4)	10.0 (0.8)	20.6 (1.3)	6.6 (0.8)
	DE - thought insertion/withdrawal	162	28.9 (4.1)	27.1 (3.9)	9.7 (2.0)	15.6 (2.9)	18.8 (3.3)
	DE - mind control/passivity	136	27.1 (5.0)	18.2 (3.5)	11.8 (2.5)	24.2 (4.5)	18.8 (4.6)
	DE - ideas of reference	169	15.5 (2.6)	24.5 (4.5)	13.2 (2.8)	23.7 (4.0)	23.1 (5.2)
	DE - plot to harm/follow	278	36.4 (3.5)	26.2 (2.8)	12.6 (2.2)	18.7 (2.4)	6.0 (1.8)
	Any DEd	556	29.1 (2.5)	27.6 (2.1)	12.6 (1.5)	18.2 (1.8)	12.5 (2.0)
	Any PEe	2125	31.7 (1.4)	31.9 (1.3)	10.1 (0.7)	20.0 (1.2)	6.4 (0.7)
	Exactly 1 PE type	1452	37.5 (1.7)	32.3 (1.5)	8.9 (0.8)	18.0 (1.4)	3.3 (0.7)
	Exactly 2 PE types	491	16.7 (3.3)	35.3 (3.6)	12.8 (2.5)	24.9 (2.5)	10.3 (1.9)
	3 or more PE types	182	17.2 (2.8)	17.6 (3.5)	13.8 (3.4)	25.6 (3.9)	25.8 (4.3)
ESEMed# only	Any PEe	260	36.4 (3.3)	30.7 (2.9)	9.5 (1.5)	20.3 (2.3)	3.2 (0.9)
	Exactly 1 PE type	179	43.0 (3.9)	29.6 (3.7)	4.3 (1.4)	21.0 (2.1)	2.1 (0.9)
	Exactly 2 PE types	53	23.6 (8.6)	33.7 (4.7)	32.3 (5.7)	6.8 (1.3)	3.6 (1.4)
	3 or more PE types	28	2.1 (0.6)	34.0 (12.1)	2.5 (1.0)	48.2 (12.5)	13.2 (5.6)
All countries	Any PEe	2385	32.2 (1.3)	31.8 (1.2)	10.0 (0.7)	20.0 (1.1)	6.0 (0.6)
	Exactly 1 PE type	1631	38.1 (1.5)	32.0 (1.4)	8.4 (0.7)	18.3 (1.2)	3.2 (0.6)
	Exactly 2 PE types	544	17.4 (3.1)	35.1 (3.3)	14.6 (2.3)	23.2 (2.2)	9.7 (1.8)
	3 or more PE types	210	15.6 (2.5)	19.3 (3.3)	12.7 (3.1)	27.9 (3.9)	24.5 (3.9)

^an = Unweighted number of respondents who reported the PEs;

^bPrevalence estimates are based on weighted data;

^cHE = Hallucinatory experience (either of the two types);

^dDE = Delusional experience (any of the four types);

^ePE = Psychotic experience (any of the six types);

^#ESEMeD = European Study of the Epidemiology of Mental Disorders.