How many % are losing hair in their twenties in your opinion

[gravesen]

10% ? 15% ? 20% ? 25% ?

I just need an estimation based either on data or on your own observations.

Thanks !

 

[Vanitykills]

If we were to include anything from mild hair loss—barely noticeable, even to the affected—to significant, I bet you're looking at 60%. From my observations, mild cases pre 25, save for the few that are very unlucky; it kicks in for the big percentage, post 25.

 

[gravesen]

I'm obviously talking just about noticeable hairloss.

 

[Vanitykills]

Yeah sure, but it's still hair loss.

 

[gravesen]

Every day and every year we lose some bit of hair, it doesn't it matter if it isn't noticeable -__-

60% is a waaaaaaaaaaay overated number.

 

[Vanitykills]

It does if it's male pattern baldness.

No need to be so defensive my friend, you're the one asking for an opinion.

 

[gravesen]

So are you saying 60% of people in their twenties have male pattern baldness ?

 

[Vanitykills]

Maybe. Just a guess, others like yourself may think much less.

40% without a fraction of hair loss. That to me seems quite a lot.

 

[gravesen]

I don't know where you live, but guys must really have a terrible life in there.

 

[slipy]

1 in 10 goes bald during his 20's thats the most frequent answer given on hair loss sites. sounds plausible to me.

 

[gravesen]

slipy : yeah, seems plausible.

I've also read that they are like 20% in their twenties, 30% in their thirties etc.

 

[Thom]

I think more people are losing it younger these days, I can't prove it though. At uni most guys I notice are in the process...I can tell some of them don't know yet either but I know what to spot.

I really think a lot of the chemicals in city water may speed it up a bit...not in drinking it, but showering with it. I'm not saying this causes it, just effects it.

 

[Captain Obvious]

Diffuse thinning: less than 8% by age 25.

Not including Mexicans or Asians.

 

[TravisB]

Yeah, heavy diffusing is quite rare in 20's. However receding, when the rest hair is thick is more common, and so most receding young guys can still hide their recession with longer hair, and non balding people have no clue.

 

[cuebald]

I would say in the UK, those under 25 with noticable male pattern baldness (NW2.5 and above) are probably about 10%. 1 in 10 will have noticable male pattern baldness.

I would then say age 25 - 30 it goes up to maybe 20%, as in out of 10, one will be NW6 and two would be NW3 or so.

In my works the other day we had about 200 higher age students (all age 17 - 18, some age 19) and not one of them out of 200 had any sign of male pattern baldness at all (greater than NW2.5). Only one person I have met started losing at 16 and was slick NW6 at 18.
someone here a year or two ago posted a picture of a guy who was a solid NW5 who had only just turned 16; he must have started losing at 14 :shakehead:

 

[maradona]

God damn !!! 16 !!! Norwood 5 ? :sobbing:

Poor poor soul i wouldn't even begin to imagine what would HS knowing your balding. It must've been literally LIVING HELL.

whats the point of balding so young !!! 16s?

Is there any evolutionary advantage? or is this just some kind of sick joke :dunno:

 

[s.a.f]

I can spot some form of hairloss in about 90% of adult males. However actaul hairloss that joe public would spot is probably much rarer.
Most people seeing a NW2.5 in his 40's would'nt think of him as balding.

 

[Thom]

Gee, I have American Indian in me....why couldn't I have inherited their genes that prevent balding??

 

[LooseItAll]

Hairloss is a dominant trait

 

[Thom]

Gee, I have American Indian in me....why couldn't I have inherited their genes that prevent balding??

lol yea i've heard its "impossible" for native americans to bald. altho, i'm not sure of how true it is.

seems likely, i've never seen or heard of a bald native american

and yes, i am half indonesian and have the hair genetics but still started losing hair. :thumbdown2:

Well, I went to a primarily Native American elementary composed of kids that had very little European in them at all (I would say full-blood but that's a rarity these days), I'm still friends with most all of them and they have perfect hairlines and no signs of balding. My Grandpa also has a friend he rides horse with who is a full-blood Navajo and he has thick long hair, and a perfect hairline, in his 50's.

I got all of the European genes though as most of my family is from the British Isles and Germany. My brother got the Indian side though, he's got good hair and dark skin. We look like Custer and Tonto standing next to each other haha.


By the way, my co-worker is from Indonesia and is a full-on NW6.