General Statistics - Mercy Ministries of America

Up to ten million teens develop eating disorders, abnormal attitudes and behaviors with foods, which include anorexia nervosa or bulimia nervosa.
For females between the ages of 15 - 24 years old, the mortality rate associated with anorexia nervosa is 12 times higher than the death rate of ALL other causes of death.
The number of girls seeking help from self-harm has doubled in the past year.
About 50% of self-injurers have a history of sexual or physical abuse.
About 72% of alcoholic women under the age of 30 also have eating disorders.
Depressive disorders afflict almost 10% of the U.S. population, with two to three times more females than males affected.
More than half of all rapes of women (54%) occur before age 18; 22% of these rapes occur before age 12.
34% of girls in America get pregnant at least once before age 20. There are 820,000 teen pregnancies each year and about half as many teen births.