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Endometriosis affects an estimated 10% of reproductive age women worldwide.

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Consistently supported by NEJM, Nature Reviews Disease Primers, WHO Bulletin, and multiple systematic reviews; 10% is the widely cited rounded consensus figure, though actual estimates range 5-13% depending on diagnostic criteria and population. [tier=gold indep_score=1.0 clusters=4 claim_tier=notable | framework convergence=partial on no single dataset; multiple independent systematic reviews and epidemiological syntheses converge on similar range (upstreams: Zondervan, Becker, Missmer (NEJM 2020), Ghiasi, Kulkarni, Missmer systematic review (2020), Global Burden of Disease (GBD) Study, World Bank 2010 estimate) — publishers independent, evidence may not be | kind=empirical eligibility=high (extractor: empirical/medium)]

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