World Mental Health Day: data on chronic depression

To mark World Mental Health Day today, Eurostat is highlighting the statistics which indicate that in 2014, 7 % of the European Union (EU) population reported having chronic depression. Ireland had the highest share of its population reporting chronic depression (12 %) and double-digit shares were also recorded in Portugal, Germany and Finland. The proportion of people reporting depression was less than 4 % in the Czech Republic, Cyprus, Bulgaria and Romania. Share of the population reporting that they had chronic depression, by sex, 2014 The proportion of people who had depressive disorders was higher for women than for men in each of the E…