Survey Finds About 25% Claim an Out-of-Body Experience

How many people report having out-of-body experiences? It is known  that a fair fraction of those having near-death experiences repot being outside of their physical body. But the fraction of the population that has had a near-death experience is probably much less than 25%. 

Below are some of the previous reports of the prevalence of out-of-body experiences. 

1. A paper  "Out-of-Body Experiences" by Carlos S. Alvarado tells us on page 185 that according to 5 surveys of the general population, 10% of the population report out-of-body experiences.  The same page tells us that there were 49 studies involving students, which found that an average of 25% reported an out-of-body experience. The same page tells us that there were 10 studies involving members of parapsychology groups, which found that an average of 48% of such people reported an out-of-body experience. 
2. We read on page 376 of the document here ( ("A NEW SURVEY OF PSYCHIC EXPERIENCES IN ICELAND") of a 2007 survey of 1026 people in Iceland, which found that 23% of the respondents claimed to have an out-of-body experience.  

A new paper ("Personality Facets Systematically Relate to Nonordinary Experiences") gives us another figure regarding what percent of people report out-of-body experiences. The survey interviewed 424 people, and this was a "sample designed to approximate the general population." People were asked about 30 questions relating to non-ordinary experiences. 

One of the survey questions was: "I went through a situation where I was outside of my physical body and could perceive it as separate from myself." According to Figure 1 of the paper, the percentage who answered yes to this question was about 25%.

The study attempts to detect "personality associations" with the answers given, but fails to find much of anything, reporting "mainly weak associations."