Prevalence
Durex's Global Sex Survey has found that worldwide 22% of people surveyed have had extramarital sex.
A 2005 scientific review of international published studies of paternal discrepancy found a range in incidence from 0.8% to 30% (median 3.7%), suggesting that the widely quoted figure of 10% of non-paternal events is an overestimate.
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