Number of People on Effexor in the United States, 2006-2020

The following information is the most accurate and documented data available on the antidepressant Effexor (including its generic version, Venlafaxine) usage in the United States. The information is from IQVia, a company that provides information, services and technology for the healthcare industry. It is the largest vendor of U.S. physician prescribing data. The following data was taken from the IQVia Total Patient Tracker Database for 2006-2020, extracted January 2021.

The data is broken into two groups of years: The top includes 2006 through 2013. Below that is the data for 2014 through 2020. Various age groups are presented first, and then individual ages by year below that.

Number of People on Effexor in the United States, by Year, Various Age Groups, 2006-2013:

Age	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012	2013
All Ages	3,318,569	3,213,358	2,999,386	2,618,918	2,531,003	2,673,237	2,700,969	2,874,517
0-17	43,487	37,349	29,957	23,252	21,095	22,437	23,430	28,266
18+	2,943,063	3,069,206	2,878,255	2,519,973	2,441,333	2,578,620	2,617,925	2,800,192
0-5	1,133	452	185	144	95	75	65	53
0-24	218,815	208,106	179,809	140,320	129,766	139,868	147,878	164,604
0-1	856	397	100	77	45	40	34	22
2-3	101	65	51	37	30	16	15	18
4-5	281	55	37	33	20	22	16	12
6-12	4,844	4,052	3,062	2,423	1,962	2,019	1,861	2,127
13-17	37,743	33,125	26,874	20,947	19,426	20,704	21,881	26,364
18-24	178,152	173,381	151,996	118,659	110,025	118,586	125,828	137,872
25-34	443,769	452,827	409,369	334,373	310,821	325,433	329,118	349,635
35-44	671,559	677,865	610,316	503,671	466,415	476,878	472,725	498,611
45-54	818,959	853,098	798,957	700,366	665,182	685,035	675,182	707,549
55-64	526,604	578,456	573,295	540,069	544,135	586,753	598,439	643,597
65-74	196,524	225,562	232,706	225,571	235,294	269,338	303,525	344,750
75-84	115,441	122,326	117,045	106,850	104,989	110,484	115,682	126,367
85+	43,225	45,452	44,730	40,791	40,151	40,075	39,650	45,419
Unknown Age	355,971	113,753	121,505	97,694	89,266	92,213	78,280	134,184

Number of People on Effexor in the United States, by Year, Various Age Groups, 2014-2020:

Age	2014	2015	2016	2017	2018	2019	2020
All Ages	3,055,495	3,168,133	3,400,214	3,272,673	3,259,327	3,316,475	3,302,132
0-17	43,099	50,527	52,053	50,249	52,464	55,092	53,465
18+	2,973,791	3,121,093	3,381,489	3,231,457	3,204,639	3,259,459	3,195,465
0-5	197	141	160	116	87	129	170
0-24	197,066	225,927	246,879	242,716	252,412	266,411	268,289
0-1	81	46	52	38	42	78	56
2-3	62	49	56	37	27	46	71
4-5	55	47	55	44	32	41	68
6-12	4,236	4,392	4,954	4,139	4,430	4,528	4,329
13-17	34,300	41,597	45,292	45,558	47,922	50,610	49,165
18-24	155,066	176,202	196,845	194,349	202,000	213,507	216,906
25-34	379,401	408,355	439,056	415,566	413,251	427,083	428,500
35-44	529,038	551,648	573,961	538,447	522,293	526,982	515,950
45-54	751,369	783,315	806,576	743,232	709,953	700,036	664,712
55-64	699,013	745,452	787,688	749,172	737,575	738,288	710,482
65-74	384,426	420,713	458,209	452,264	462,807	482,476	484,953
75-84	138,607	148,922	160,582	159,706	169,242	178,248	179,434
85+	50,600	45,753	48,058	41,285	42,472	42,923	43,087
Unknown Age	112,988	26,467	6,163	27,364	8,507	5,769	75,725

Number of People on Effexor in the United States, by Year, by Individual Age, 2006-2013:
Note that due to possible duplication of data for the individual ages below (where a person might change age in a year and be counted twice), the data cannot be summed for individual ages (i.e., adding the number of 1 year olds to the number of 2 year olds). Please use the sums provided for the specific age groups above, as those have been deduplicated.

Age	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012	2013
-1	540	309	63	39	25	23	19	13
1	335	91	35	39	19	17	15	9
2	68	37	31	13	22	10	10	12
3	34	28	20	24	9	6	5	6
4	49	13	17	11	8	11	7	4
5	244	41	21	22	13	11	9	8
6	320	170	42	48	43	27	16	17
7	201	316	169	53	76	85	44	55
8	312	220	186	199	81	121	128	117
9	494	431	338	269	237	184	190	221
10	821	644	539	429	328	371	293	351
11	1,159	1,000	809	608	497	535	519	514
12	1,777	1,432	1,091	944	812	795	791	963
13	2,959	2,123	1,913	1,416	1,316	1,305	1,369	1,673
14	4,648	3,926	3,049	2,410	1,975	2,450	2,400	3,039
15	7,393	6,375	5,121	3,854	3,682	3,806	4,315	5,245
16	11,035	10,020	7,904	6,224	5,738	5,969	6,606	7,929
17	15,184	13,715	11,535	8,997	8,089	8,614	8,926	10,509
18	19,137	18,171	14,966	11,852	11,026	10,837	11,769	13,164
19	21,451	20,949	18,271	14,165	13,169	13,979	14,462	16,085
20	24,661	23,756	21,133	15,788	15,036	16,254	17,445	19,084
21	28,423	27,560	23,799	18,843	16,736	18,539	19,941	21,989
22	30,440	30,517	27,176	20,470	19,079	20,320	21,877	23,783
23	32,591	32,718	29,582	23,075	20,528	22,117	24,486	26,526
24	36,176	35,091	31,942	25,366	22,868	24,454	26,044	28,846
25	39,214	39,603	34,645	27,355	24,623	26,391	27,879	30,314
26	42,128	42,245	37,923	30,271	26,788	28,242	29,603	31,684
27	43,278	46,443	41,073	33,032	29,143	29,461	30,956	32,660
28	44,924	47,658	44,274	35,053	32,505	32,055	32,985	35,117
29	47,691	48,924	45,832	37,840	33,683	35,328	34,945	36,978
30	48,404	51,415	46,933	39,063	36,888	36,508	37,873	39,067
31	50,633	51,974	49,313	40,285	37,710	39,571	39,579	42,134
32	53,780	54,364	49,560	42,391	38,314	41,261	42,471	44,317
33	55,658	57,194	52,438	42,263	40,747	41,002	43,822	47,146
34	60,451	59,482	54,359	44,691	40,252	43,008	43,662	48,019
35	66,525	64,394	56,221	46,729	41,940	42,769	45,142	47,892
36	71,797	70,942	61,608	48,823	44,368	44,625	44,459	49,949
37	71,263	76,150	67,542	52,465	45,492	47,214	46,778	49,431
38	69,775	74,844	72,231	57,795	49,473	48,293	48,439	51,100
39	70,356	73,706	70,554	61,522	54,465	51,460	50,645	52,736
40	72,447	74,022	69,230	60,670	57,677	56,255	53,675	55,160
41	77,077	75,986	69,786	59,503	57,239	60,296	58,786	58,162
42	82,793	80,507	72,344	59,709	55,544	59,468	62,872	64,189
43	85,790	87,143	76,109	62,141	56,326	58,271	62,059	68,509
44	88,086	89,544	83,110	65,706	58,636	58,776	61,350	67,553
45	91,154	92,532	85,958	72,343	62,974	62,100	62,075	66,730
46	92,042	95,985	88,167	75,100	68,365	66,080	65,497	68,207
47	93,423	97,144	91,934	77,467	72,947	72,101	69,762	71,598
48	93,285	98,133	92,570	80,955	74,273	74,838	76,563	76,455
49	98,292	99,021	94,437	82,493	76,868	78,417	79,036	83,262
50	97,475	103,712	94,254	84,177	78,374	82,168	82,356	86,529
51	96,111	102,141	98,646	84,186	79,746	82,829	85,919	88,951
52	95,866	100,502	97,217	87,204	79,888	83,400	85,863	91,187
53	91,760	99,063	94,700	85,240	81,474	82,486	86,079	91,415
54	88,534	95,036	93,555	83,516	79,195	84,118	83,972	90,593
55	83,793	91,320	89,059	81,949	76,845	80,676	84,611	88,620
56	76,604	85,883	85,252	77,970	74,929	78,683	81,355	87,534
57	73,358	77,695	80,030	74,307	71,251	75,680	78,630	84,402
58	71,096	75,556	72,628	69,809	67,855	72,353	76,263	81,483
59	70,596	72,624	69,840	63,340	63,854	68,959	72,425	78,757
60	59,874	72,004	67,828	60,858	58,355	64,587	68,748	75,007
61	46,581	60,676	66,775	58,865	55,914	58,927	64,489	70,904
62	44,990	47,920	56,164	58,038	54,246	56,045	58,638	66,387
63	42,693	45,121	43,781	49,110	53,445	53,824	56,323	60,039
64	38,134	43,499	41,747	38,289	44,812	53,453	54,317	57,764
65	33,522	40,996	41,935	37,988	37,066	47,358	57,003	59,414
66	29,890	35,432	39,012	37,678	35,571	37,935	49,832	59,991
67	26,236	30,907	33,419	34,446	35,637	35,908	39,634	50,977
68	24,828	27,718	29,300	29,220	31,887	35,927	38,260	41,238
69	22,347	26,240	25,998	25,905	27,187	32,793	37,533	39,422
70	20,632	23,666	24,714	23,407	24,185	27,711	33,884	38,266
71	19,575	21,694	22,052	21,859	21,756	24,383	28,772	34,687
72	18,245	20,573	20,566	19,618	20,397	22,462	25,280	29,447
73	16,208	19,243	19,414	17,901	18,208	20,621	22,671	26,035
74	16,118	17,248	18,338	17,329	16,546	18,780	21,442	23,438
75	15,711	17,068	16,096	15,905	15,932	16,633	19,073	21,874
76	15,488	16,383	16,022	14,113	14,695	16,063	17,277	19,338
77	14,402	16,097	15,462	13,962	13,082	14,735	16,236	17,551
78	14,454	14,863	14,934	13,601	12,819	13,109	14,838	16,273
79	13,931	15,236	13,776	12,870	12,371	12,604	13,068	14,533
80	13,728	14,270	13,733	11,621	11,656	11,866	12,361	12,915
81	12,704	12,963	12,789	11,511	10,493	11,014	11,798	12,184
82	12,074	12,545	11,943	10,654	10,014	9,987	10,713	11,498
83	13,570	11,948	11,441	9,862	9,451	9,447	9,540	10,485
84	11,745	13,459	11,658	10,634	9,181	9,460	8,985	9,375
85	43,225	45,452	44,730	40,791	40,151	40,075	39,650	45,419
Unknown Age	355,971	113,753	121,505	97,694	89,266	92,213	78,280	134,184

Number of People on Effexor in the United States, by Year, by Individual Age, 2014-2020:

Age	2014	2015	2016	2017	2018	2019	2020
-1	46	22	31	20	37	55	27
1	36	23	26	23	14	24	29
2	34	39	37	21	15	36	38
3	28	10	19	17	11	14	41
4	32	11	10	14	7	21	29
5	23	37	44	29	28	21	42
6	77	34	74	64	86	62	40
7	146	128	166	131	131	164	143
8	272	256	339	256	258	244	284
9	434	434	575	478	543	482	427
10	663	724	824	716	673	751	674
11	1,002	986	1,127	1,041	1,112	1,173	1,103
12	1,422	1,695	1,791	1,641	1,928	2,053	2,001
13	2,460	2,846	3,040	3,077	3,266	3,791	3,611
14	4,379	5,120	5,364	5,349	5,832	6,160	6,384
15	7,062	8,687	9,396	9,237	9,761	10,353	10,127
16	9,932	12,117	13,595	13,820	14,181	15,031	14,782
17	12,970	15,383	17,285	17,659	18,636	19,538	18,519
18	15,545	18,629	21,201	21,322	22,331	23,535	23,161
19	18,705	21,801	24,714	25,160	26,154	27,842	27,871
20	21,630	25,151	28,665	28,861	30,167	31,628	32,373
21	24,168	27,277	30,790	31,247	32,411	34,672	34,987
22	26,838	29,859	33,347	32,713	34,319	36,238	37,529
23	29,337	32,504	35,842	34,325	35,596	38,383	39,285
24	31,676	34,561	37,926	36,300	37,235	39,556	40,341
25	33,870	37,071	40,288	38,758	39,288	40,951	41,477
26	34,925	38,820	42,104	40,618	40,766	42,726	43,372
27	35,949	39,778	43,658	41,923	41,907	43,560	43,822
28	38,461	41,796	44,894	43,370	44,226	45,926	45,963
29	40,700	43,528	47,122	44,710	45,094	47,963	47,888
30	42,156	45,849	49,278	46,422	46,207	48,127	49,375
31	44,780	47,139	51,306	47,777	47,106	49,174	49,544
32	47,276	49,580	52,425	49,968	48,449	50,141	50,254
33	50,102	52,181	54,969	50,762	50,343	50,921	51,087
34	52,479	54,566	57,745	52,943	51,627	52,817	51,559
35	52,938	56,596	59,229	55,594	53,078	53,831	53,264
36	52,646	57,037	61,860	56,982	55,648	55,334	54,074
37	54,286	56,916	61,656	59,351	56,763	57,578	55,152
38	54,235	58,977	61,216	58,943	59,150	58,283	57,434
39	56,593	58,368	63,485	58,945	58,761	60,724	58,147
40	58,418	60,474	62,574	60,659	58,063	60,550	60,839
41	60,734	62,636	63,888	60,042	60,234	59,667	60,021
42	64,426	65,011	67,447	61,972	58,901	61,894	59,223
43	70,273	69,699	69,321	64,405	61,227	60,584	60,932
44	74,956	76,053	73,703	66,149	63,408	62,438	59,450
45	73,532	79,767	80,455	70,082	65,476	65,329	61,817
46	73,613	79,101	85,649	77,124	69,115	67,371	64,338
47	75,661	79,443	83,997	81,957	77,313	72,090	66,842
48	79,584	81,627	84,398	81,051	81,960	80,178	71,684
49	84,580	85,403	86,166	80,999	81,362	84,428	79,224
50	91,931	91,620	90,908	82,755	81,142	83,922	83,422
51	95,006	98,025	96,673	86,620	82,922	83,307	82,551
52	96,573	100,412	102,517	91,172	85,755	83,861	81,340
53	98,510	101,570	104,736	96,076	88,922	86,546	81,561
54	97,273	102,847	105,110	97,189	93,895	88,972	82,190
55	95,578	100,334	104,526	96,506	93,943	92,600	84,735
56	92,649	97,546	102,214	96,168	92,598	91,680	87,550
57	92,043	94,610	98,833	93,721	92,007	90,271	86,764
58	88,151	93,616	96,185	90,669	89,498	89,919	85,122
59	85,511	90,168	94,475	87,936	86,625	87,797	84,819
60	82,084	86,498	90,758	86,597	83,940	84,319	82,762
61	77,777	83,551	87,009	83,398	82,803	81,187	79,564
62	73,784	79,343	83,752	79,497	79,777	81,299	76,422
63	68,435	74,789	79,589	76,520	76,272	77,438	76,278
64	61,900	69,633	74,502	72,539	73,178	74,292	73,082
65	62,885	66,080	72,194	71,195	72,071	73,472	71,877
66	61,941	63,149	65,756	65,645	67,471	68,703	67,707
67	61,356	62,552	63,011	60,062	62,193	65,203	64,501
68	51,049	62,200	61,854	57,669	57,218	60,603	61,033
69	42,469	51,125	61,941	56,652	55,060	55,698	56,997
70	40,415	42,636	50,990	56,074	53,315	53,085	51,628
71	38,959	40,624	42,109	46,427	52,896	51,049	49,561
72	35,235	39,086	40,231	38,109	44,035	51,054	47,635
73	29,773	35,306	38,412	36,217	36,106	42,650	47,268
74	26,248	29,926	34,852	34,593	34,265	34,517	39,631
75	24,116	26,184	29,107	31,319	32,564	32,704	31,655
76	21,966	23,532	25,790	26,141	29,593	31,183	29,857
77	19,683	21,367	22,980	22,969	24,649	27,836	28,401
78	17,849	19,093	21,073	20,527	21,468	23,151	25,133
79	16,171	17,392	18,329	18,601	19,049	19,896	20,610
80	14,272	15,799	16,432	16,120	17,083	17,534	17,657
81	12,959	13,664	14,702	14,107	14,524	15,740	15,373
82	11,871	12,140	13,081	12,696	12,743	13,295	13,700
83	10,849	10,995	11,351	11,154	11,195	11,393	11,511
84	10,181	10,180	10,074	7,794	9,856	10,097	9,927
85	50,600	45,753	48,058	41,285	42,472	42,923	43,087
Unknown Age	112,988	26,467	6,163	27,364	8,507	5,769	75,725