These are official figures from the Swedish government!

In Sweden, where ElectroSensitivity is officially regarded as a physical impairment, there are over 230,000 people (2.5% of the population) registered as having ElectroSensitivity in some form.

No official data exists for other countries, although there may be up to 1.5 million people in England who suffer from ElectroSensitivity in some form, and as many as 6.5 million in USA if you apply the figure of 2.5% to these countries populations.

There were 2 studies done in 2002 which surveyed the general population and asked whether they thought they suffered from some kind of electrical sensitivities. The first (Hillert et al) asked 10,600 randomly selected people by post. 1.5% of those who responded said they suffer from it. The second (Levallois et al) was a telephone survey to 2000 people. 3.2% said they suffered from ElectroSensitivity and 0.5% said they were hyper sensitive.

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You are more likely to suffer from depression if there is a high background magnetic field level in your house. This is backed up by 2 scientific studies.

1) The first found a higher incidence of depression & suicide amongst people who live in homes with magnetic field levels of 1mG or higher. [1]

2) The second examined 6,000 people living in apartment blocks, it found that those people living in apartments near the main electrical cable running up through the block had a higher incidence of depression. These apartments had a background magnetic field of 3.5mG compared to the 'normal' 1.6mG. In some cases the prevalence of depression was as much as 82% higher than in the 'normal' apartments. [2]

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