People with bleeding disorders worldwide in 2022, by condition

In 2022, over 257 thousand people were confirmed to have hemophilia worldwide. At that time a further 100 thousand people were living with von Willebrand disease. Both of these bleeding disorders are genetic diseases that prevent blood from clotting normally.

Bleeding disorders

There are multiple types of hemophilia and bleeding disorders including hemophilia A, hemophilia B and various platelet disorders. Globally, hemophilia A has the largest number of people living with a bleeding disorder, followed by von Willebrand disease. Life expectancy for hemophilia has dramatically increased since the advent of medicine to help combat the disorder. Modern medical treatments have extended the life expectancy of a hemophilia patient from 30 to 68 years.

U.S. market

In the U.S. alone there are over 18 thousand patients with hemophilia and almost 14 thousand with von Willebrand disease. Hemophilia A is more common than hemophilia B. In the U.S. around 14 thousand patients had hemophilia A as of 2022. Comparatively, just under 4.4 thousand patients had hemophilia B at that time. While hemophilia and other bleeding disorders can affect persons of any ethnicity, von Willebrand patients in the U.S. are largely white or Caucasian. In 2023, over 80 percent of von Willebrand patients were white.