Table 1.

The prevalence of chronic wounds across global regions.

Geographical Region	Prevalence	Number of people affected	Number of inhabitants	Reference
Australia	3–61 / 1000 people	0.73–1.48 million	24.3 million	201
Africa	19–130 / 1000 people	20–135 million†	1.033 billion‡	202
USA	21 / 1000 people*	6.6 million	314 million	4
India	4.48 / 1000 people	5.5 million	1.237 billion	203
Europe	3–4 / 1000 people	1.5–2.0 million	500+ million	204
UK	3.5 / 1000 people	220,000†	63 million‡	202

^*estimated from affected individuals

^†estimated from prevalence data

^‡based on available historical population data