#6 Brazil ranks fifth worldwide for depressive cases.
211 million people. Among the Brazilian population, around 68% of people fall between the ages of 15 and 64, a target age range for both anxiety disorders and depression. Brazil leads in the world in terms of anxiety cases and ranks fifth for cases of depression, but access to public health support for treatment remains low.
WHO: BRAZIL HAS HIGHEST NUMBER OF PEOPLE SUFFERING FROM DEPRESSION IN LATIN AMERICA
Brazil also ranks alongside Ukraine, Australia and the US, as one of the nations with the highest population depression rate (5.9% out of total, or about 11.5 million people) globally. Some data, taken from the Center for Valuing Life (CVV), a Brazilian non-profit organization that provides people having suicidal tendencies with telephone assistance, expose that one case occurs every 43 minutes. The WHO warned that around 800 thousand people annually die due to theses tendencies, considered as the second cause of death in the Brazilian population between 15-29 years. People suffering from depression are lacking medical care and in many other countries less than 10% of depressed patients access medical care. |