At least 100 million people in the world have anhedonia to some degree

About 280 million people in the world have depression¹, and at least half of them have anhedonia². If you add to that all the people who have anhedonia because of other health issues, like PTSD and schizophrenia, you will see how massive this issue is—and yet anhedonia is often overlooked by the mental health field.

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Sources

¹https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/depression

²Pharmacological Treatments for Anhedonia. Klein M et al 2022 (link)