It is estimated that around 8-10% of the world's population have a specific phobia. These phobias can range from fear of Spiders or heights to fear of flying or public speaking. Phobias can vary in severity and impact on individuals' daily lives.
It is difficult to determine the exact number of people with globophobia worldwide as it is not a well-documented or widely studied specific phobia. However, specific phobias in general are quite common, affecting around 12% of adults at some point in their lives.
It is difficult to determine an exact number of people with arithmophobia (fear of numbers) as it is not a commonly diagnosed condition. However, it is considered to be a relatively rare specific phobia.
It is difficult to determine the exact number of people with hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia (the fear of long words) as many cases go unreported. However, it is considered to be a rare phobia affecting a small percentage of the population.
Catoptrophobia, or the fear of mirrors, is a relatively uncommon phobia. The exact number of people affected by catoptrophobia is not known, as many cases may go unreported or undiagnosed. It is estimated that a small percentage of the population may experience some form of fear or discomfort related to mirrors.
The most common phobia in the world is definitely Arachnophobia. 50% of women and 10% of men have, to some degree, a fear of spiders. If not that then Acrophobia a fear of heights.
dressaphobia
I am not sure of the name but yes, people can have a phobia of anything, for example, my friend is scared of tomato ketchup.
atychiphobia some people have this phobia
Yes. Genuphobia is the name of the phobia
There is no official phobia that relates to World of Warcraft directly. The closest phobia unofficially would be Vidigameaphobia: A Fear of Video Games (link in the links section below).
Social phobia
Socianthphobia
Polyphobia is the name of the phobia related to the fear of many things
Yes, there is an unusual but officially recognised phobia of right-handed people.This phobia (and the phobia of anything related to right-handedness) is called Dextrophobia.
Yes. Since this is a specific fear, it would be termed a simple phobia (rather than a social phobia).
People with social phobia may not be shy, they may feel perfectly comfortable with people except in specific situations
Yes, there is an officially recognised phobia of the Pope.This phobia is called papaphobia.In the past, people suffering with this medically-recognised phobia were treated as if they were posessed by demons.