SCIENCE: The Average Person Pops at Least 3,800 Pimples in Their Lifetime

By Scott and Sadie

April 19, 2021

It's so damn satisfying to pop a pimple. So we're glad we get to do it ALL the time.

A new study figured out how many pimples the average person will pop in their lifetime. I assume they're only talking about your own pimples . . . not you going around popping juicy ones on strangers in the street. As tempting as that is.

The average person gets 65.4 pimples per year . . . about 40 on their face and 25 on their body.

Women have an average life expectancy of 80.5 years, and for men, it's 75.1.

So if you subtract the years when you're too young to have pimples, that means women will pop 4,153 pimples in their lifetime, and men will pop 3,800. 

(Study Finds)

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