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4.2percent
In the prevalence of repetitive strain and computer-related pain dataset, the 10 published figures for “Carpal tunnel syndrome” have a median of 4.2 percent, ranging from 1.7 to 34.
Calculated from 10 data points on October 19, 2026
- What it measures
- Each figure is one row of the dataset: a published measurement for a stated group, traced to its source. The median is the middle value of the 10 figures for this group.
- How it is calculated
- Median of 10 values (1.7, 2.7, 2.7, 3.1, 3.1, 5.3, 6, 6.7, 7.8, 34) = 4.2.
- What it does not show
- Definitions, populations and periods differ widely between studies, so the medians show a typical reported figure, not a rate for any one group.
A statistic of the dataset Repetitive Strain Injury Statistics: How Common Is RSI, calculated by code from its published rows.
Calculated from
- In a random sample of 2,466 adults aged 25 to 74 in southern Sweden, 2.7% had carpal tunnel syndrome confirmed both by clinical examination and by nerve conduction testing.
- In a Dutch cohort of 639 pregnant women, 34 percent reported carpal tunnel symptoms during pregnancy.
- In the 1988 National Health Interview Survey occupational health supplement, 1.74 percent of recent US workers reported carpal tunnel syndrome.
- In the 2010 National Health Interview Survey, the 12-month prevalence of clinician-diagnosed carpal tunnel syndrome among current or recent US workers was 3.1 percent, about 4.8 million workers.
- In the 2010 National Health Interview Survey, the lifetime prevalence of clinician-diagnosed carpal tunnel syndrome among current or recent US workers was 6.7 percent.
- In a NIOSH pooled analysis of six prospective studies of US working populations, 7.8 percent of 4,321 enrolled workers met the shared case definition for carpal tunnel syndrome at enrollment.
- In the 2015 National Health Interview Survey Occupational Health Supplement, the unadjusted prevalence of current carpal tunnel syndrome among US workers was 2.67 percent, with a 95 percent confidence interval of 2.40 to 2.97 percent.
- In the 2015 National Health Interview Survey Occupational Health Supplement, the unadjusted prevalence of carpal tunnel syndrome ever diagnosed among US workers was 6.05 percent, with a 95 percent confidence interval of 5.58 to 6.56 percent.
- In a Finnish population sample aged 30 and over, possible or probable carpal tunnel syndrome was found in 5.3 percent of women and 2.1 percent of men.
- In UK Biobank, 12,312 of 401,656 participants had carpal tunnel syndrome, a prevalence of 3.1 percent.