OBJECTIVE: To use data from the Global Burden of Disease Study between 1990 and 2017 to report the rates and trends of point prevalence, annual incidence, and years lived with disability for neck pain in the general population of 195 countries. ...The largest increases in age standardised point prevalence estimates from 1990 to 2017 were in the United Kingdom 14.6 10.6 to 18.8 , Sweden 10.4 6.0 to 15.4 , and Kuwait 2.6 2.0 to 3.2 . ...