--- title: Women Are More Prone to Anxiety Than Men, Study Says description: Almost twice as many women suffer from anxiety compared to men. canonical: https://time.com/4360394/women-prone-anxiety/ author: Megan Lasher article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-06-08T16:17:12.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T09:02:41.103Z og:title: Women Are More Prone to Anxiety Than Men, Study Says og:description: Almost twice as many women suffer from anxiety og:url: https://time.com/4360394/women-prone-anxiety/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blta4a2ef091a682be9/69887b48cd1bba21b26ff2eb/confusion-2-mental-health-self-betterment.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 2500 og:image:height: 1406 og:image:alt: confusion-2-mental-health-self-betterment-motto-stock og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Women Are More Prone to Anxiety Than Men, Study Says twitter:description: Almost twice as many women suffer from anxiety twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blta4a2ef091a682be9/69887b48cd1bba21b26ff2eb/confusion-2-mental-health-self-betterment.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Women Are More Likely to Have an Anxiety Disorder Than Men > Sponsored content. 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It is a free newsletter available at time.com/newsletters. by [Megan Lasher](https://time.com/author/megan-lasher/) ## Megan Lasher Jun 8, 2016 4:17 PM UTC  Peechaya Burroughs for TIME by [Megan Lasher](https://time.com/author/megan-lasher/) ## Megan Lasher Jun 8, 2016 4:17 PM UTC A new review suggests that [anxiety disorders are more prevalent among women](http://nymag.com/thecut/2016/06/women-are-twice-as-likely-as-men-to-have-anxiety.html)—perhaps even twice as common. Researchers from the University of Cambridge and the Wesminster City Council published [a review](http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/brb3.497/abstract;jsessionid=608C29494C2AD7AC66F2EBA3C2517BC9.f04t03) in the journal _Brain and Behavior_ on Sunday that analyzed 48 previous reviews of the prevalence of anxiety disorders among different groups. They included reviews that assessed a variety of anxiety disorders—and that used a range of anxiety-assessing methods (including self-reporting symptoms). Not only are anxiety disorders substantially prevalent—the research estimates that they affect between 3.8% and 25% of world the population—but they’re also common in women in particular, according to three of the reviews researchers looked at. In fact, they estimated that 5.2% to 8.7% of women suffer from anxiety. “Women are almost twice as likely to be affected as men, with sex differences persisting over time and across high and low resource settings,” researchers wrote in the study. Young adults, people with chronic diseases and individuals from “Euro/Anglo cultures” were also found to be disproportionately affected. “Anxiety disorders are increasingly being recognized as important determinants of poor health and major contributors to health service use across the globe,” wrote the researchers. “Despite epidemiologic advances in this field, important areas of research remain under- or unexplored.” ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4360394/women-prone-anxiety/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4360394/women-prone-anxiety/"},"headline":"Women Are More Likely to Have an Anxiety Disorder Than Men","datePublished":"2016-06-08T16:17:12.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T09:02:41.103Z","description":"Almost twice as many women suffer from anxiety","url":"https://time.com/4360394/women-prone-anxiety/","keywords":["motto","News"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blta4a2ef091a682be9/69887b48cd1bba21b26ff2eb/confusion-2-mental-health-self-betterment.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Megan Lasher","jobTitle":"","url":"https://time.com/author/megan-lasher/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blta4a2ef091a682be9/69887b48cd1bba21b26ff2eb/confusion-2-mental-health-self-betterment.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"confusion-2-mental-health-self-betterment-motto-stock","caption":"confusion 2 mental health self betterment motto stock","creditText":"Peechaya Burroughs for TIME","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/motto/","name":"motto"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4360394/women-prone-anxiety/","name":"Women Are More Likely to Have an Anxiety Disorder Than Men"}}]}] ```