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In a 2024 WHO report, 73% of reported suicides were in low and middle-income countries. Mental illness and suicide are linked, though many suicides are impulsive and occur due to crisis. Groups subject to discrimination , including refugees , indigenous populations , and LGBT people, experience high suicide rates.
Depression is a major cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide, as the epidemiology has shown. [1] Lifetime prevalence estimates vary widely, from 3% in Japan to 17% in India. Epidemiological data shows higher rates of depression in the Middle East, North Africa, South Asia and the United States than in other regions and countries. [2]
The source for the data below is the OECD Health Statistics 2018, released by the OECD in June 2018 and updated on 8 November 2018. [1]The unit of measurement used by the OECD is defined daily dose (DDD), defined as "the assumed average maintenance dose per day for a drug used on its main indication in adults". [2]
The shocking economic impact figure was calculated based on lost productivity as a result of the two most common mental disorders.
In the United States, drug overdose-related deaths increased prior to and accelerated after the onset of COVID-19. [ 36 ] More specifically, the opioid overdose crisis worsened within the three years, from 2017 to 2020, in Wisconsin . [ 37 ]
Obsessive-compulsive disorder is two to three times as common in Latin America, Africa, and Europe as in Asia and Oceania. [7] Schizophrenia appears to be most common in Japan, Oceania, and Southeastern Europe and least common in Africa. [8] Bipolar disorder and panic disorder have very similar rates around the world. [9] [10]
The Great Depression began in the United States of America and quickly spread worldwide. [42] It had severe effects in countries both rich and poor. Personal income, consumption, industrial output, tax revenue, profits and prices dropped, while international trade plunged by more than 50%.
The United States reports about 14.5 deaths annually per 100,000 people, however, this rate is steadily increasing. In the 2000s, that rate was 10 people per 100,000 people per year. [9] Within countries there is variety as well. As of 2021, Wyoming is the leading state in annual suicide with 32.3 deaths per 100,000 people.