WHO-MSD-MER-2017.2-eng.pdf

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• Globally, the total number of people with depression was estimated to exceed 300 million in 2015. Nearly that number again suffers from a range of anxiety disorders.

• Depression is ranked by WHO as the single largest contributor to global disability (7.5% of all years lived with disability in 2015); anxiety disorders are ranked 6 th (3.4%).

• The number of persons with common mental disorders globally is going up, particularly in lower-income countries, because the population is growing and more people are living to the age when depression and anxiety most commonly occurs.

• This booklet provides latest available estimates of the prevalence of depression and other common mental disorders at the global and regional level

• The proportion of the global population with depression in 2015 is estimated to be 4.4%.

• The total number of people living with depression in the world is 322 million.

• The total estimated number of people living with depression increased by 18.4% between 2005 and 2015

• The proportion of the global population with anxiety disorders in 2015 is estimated to be 3.6%

• The total estimated number of people living with anxiety disorders in the world is 264 million. This total for 2015 reflects a 14.9% increase since 2005