Overview

• Number of hospitalized girls aged 10–17 doubled to 6,000, representing 49.3% of all eating-disorder inpatients in 2023.
• Total annual hospital cases for eating disorders remained virtually unchanged at around 12,000 over the past two decades.
• Men comprised only 6.7% of patients in 2023 as male admissions fell from 1,560 in 2003 to about 820.
• Anorexia nervosa accounted for roughly three-quarters of treatment cases in 2023, followed by bulimia at about 11%.
• Health professionals point to pandemic-era mental-health strains and self-optimization content on social media as likely drivers of the rise in adolescent cases.