MEDIA ROOM
General Men’s Health Stats in the US
If you’d like a copy of sources for this data, please contact references@movember.com.
- On average, men die six years earlier than women across the world
- Men are 24 percent less likely than women to have visited a doctor within the past year
- More than one-third of adults (34.9%) in the United States are obese
- 12.4% of men 18 years and over are in fair or poor health
- Prostate cancer is the 2nd most common cancer in men in the United States
- 3M American men are living with prostate cancer
- 1 in 8 men will be diagnosed with prostate cancer in their lifetime
- 73 American men will die from prostate cancer every day
- Testicular cancer is the most common cancer in young men aged 15 - 34 years
- About 8,850 new cases of testicular cancer are diagnosed in men each year
- About 380 men will die of testicular cancer
- 1 American man will die everyday from testicular cancer
- 1 in 4 adults in the United States will experience a mental health problem in a given year
- In America, 4 out of 5 suicides are men
- Every day 90 American men die by suicide
- Every minute, somewhere in the world, a man takes his own life
If you’d like a copy of sources for this data, please contact references@movember.com.
