Editing Insomnia (section)

==Epidemiology==
Between 10% and 30% of adults have insomnia at any given point in time and up to half of people have insomnia in a given year, making it the most common sleep disorder.<ref name=Th2007/><ref name=WHO2009/><ref name=Tas2015/><ref>{{cite web |title=What are Sleep Disorders? |url=https://psychiatry.org/patients-families/sleep-disorders/what-are-sleep-disorders |website=Psychiatry.org |access-date=2022-10-27 |archive-date=2022-10-27 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221027112656/https://psychiatry.org/patients-families/sleep-disorders/what-are-sleep-disorders |url-status=live }}</ref> About 6% of people have insomnia that is not due to another problem and lasts for more than a month.<ref name=Th2007/> People over the age of 65 are affected more often than younger people.<ref name=Wil2008/> Females are more often affected than males.<ref name=WHO2009/> Insomnia is 40% more common in women than in men.<ref>{{cite journal |title=Several Sleep Disorders Reflect Gender Differences |journal=Psychiatric News |year=2007 |volume=42 |issue=8 |page=40|doi=10.1176/pn.42.10.0040 | vauthors = Lamberg L }}</ref>

There are higher rates of insomnia reported [[Sleep deprivation in higher education|among university students]] compared to the general population.<ref>{{cite journal | vauthors = Jiang XL, Zheng XY, Yang J, Ye CP, Chen YY, Zhang ZG, Xiao ZJ | title = A systematic review of studies on the prevalence of insomnia in university students | journal = Public Health | volume = 129 | issue = 12 | pages = 1579–84 | date = December 2015 | pmid = 26298588 | doi = 10.1016/j.puhe.2015.07.030 }}</ref>