In all of the many books and webpages I’ve read since my Endometriosis diagnosis, I’ve read the same stats over and over.  1 in 10 people born with a uterus will develop Endometriosis.  176 million affected worldwide.  But where did those stats come from? When were they last updated? How do they track it?

After scouring the web, I finally found some of the sources of those figures, but nothing that actually gives me a current number of diagnoses around the world today:

But the term “women” is no longer an accurate reflection regarding the statistics. There are non-binary, transgender, others who do not identify as women, and even cis-men who suffer with Endometriosis.

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