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This study aimed to systemically assess the prevalence of CFS\/ME in various aspects of analyses for precise assessment.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Methods<\/jats:title><jats:p>We systematically searched prevalence of CFS\/ME from public databases from 1980 to December 2018. Data were extracted according to 7 categories for analysis: study participants, gender and age of the participants, case definition, diagnostic method, publication year, and country of the study conducted. Prevalence data were collected and counted individually for studies adopted various case definitions. We analyzed and estimated prevalence rates in various angles: average prevalence, pooled prevalence and meta-analysis of all studies.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Results<\/jats:title><jats:p>A total of 1291 articles were initially identified, and 45 articles (46 studies, 56 prevalence data) were selected for this study. Total 1085,976 participants were enrolled from community-based survey (540,901) and primary care sites (545,075). The total average prevalence was 1.40\u2009\u00b1\u20091.57%, pooled prevalence 0.39%, and meta-analysis 0.68% [95% CI 0.48\u20130.97]. The prevalence rates were varied by enrolled participants (gender, study participants, and population group), case definitions and diagnostic methods. For example, in the meta-analysis; women (1.36% [95% CI 0.48\u20130.97]) vs. men (0.86% [95% CI 0.48\u20130.97]), community-based samples (0.76% [95% CI 0.53\u20131.10]) vs. primary care sites (0.63% [95% CI 0.37\u20131.10]), adults\u2009\u2265\u200918\u00a0years (0.65% [95% CI 0.43\u20130.99]) vs. children and adolescents\u2009&lt;\u200918\u00a0years (0.55% [95% CI 0.22\u20131.35]), CDC-1994 (0.89% [95% CI 0.60\u20131.33]) vs. Holmes (0.17% [95% CI 0.06\u20130.49]), and interviews (1.14% [95% CI 0.76\u20131.72]) vs. physician diagnosis (0.09% [95% CI 0.05\u20130.13]), respectively.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Conclusions<\/jats:title><jats:p>This study comprehensively estimated the prevalence of CFS\/ME; 0.89% according to the most commonly used case definition CDC-1994, with women approximately 1.5 to 2 folds higher than men in all categories. However, we observed the prevalence rates are widely varied particularly by case definitions and diagnostic methods. 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