Adults Who Have Been Too Anxious or Depressed to Carry On

Every year in one file, one row per country per year: anxiety-depression-all-editions-nations-inquiry.csv

Every column in the newest file of Adults Who Have Been Too Anxious or Depressed to Carry On: what it holds, how it is stored, and its range.

Column	What it holds	Stored as	Range, 2020	Distinct	Empty	Spread
CountrycountryName	The country’s name, as this file spells it.	Text	—	112	0
ISO Codecountry_codeIdentifier	The ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 code, added by this site. Every table here joins on it.	Text · 3 letters	—	112	0
Have ever been too anxious or depressed to carry on for two weeks or more (%)anxiety_depressionHeadline	The headline figure: People aged 15+ who have ever been too anxious or depressed to continue their usual activities for two weeks or more (%).	Number · up to 15 decimals	2.934Taiwan49.350Perumiddle 20.053	112	0

Profiled from the newest file. Range: the lowest and highest value, with the country holding it when only one does. Spread: countries in ten equal steps from lowest to highest. Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score.

One year, covering 112 countries.

Not in this dataset · 113 places this site covers

Wellcome Trust gives no figure for these in any year held here. It is the publisher’s choice of scope, and each place’s profile shows what is measured.

AfghanistanAmerican SamoaAndorraAngolaAnguillaAntigua and BarbudaArmeniaArubaAzerbaijanBahamasBarbadosBelarusBelizeBermudaBhutanBotswanaBritish Virgin IslandsBruneiBurundiCabo VerdeCayman IslandsCentral African RepublicChadChannel IslandsComorosCook IslandsCubaCuraçaoDjiboutiDominicaDR CongoEquatorial GuineaEritreaEswatiniFaroe IslandsFijiFrench PolynesiaGambiaGibraltarGreenlandGrenadaGuamGuatemalaGuinea-BissauGuyanaHaitiHondurasIcelandIsle of ManJamaicaKiribatiKuwaitLesothoLiberiaLibyaLiechtensteinLuxembourgMacauMadagascarMalawiMaldivesMarshall IslandsMauritaniaMicronesiaMonacoMontserratMozambiqueNauruNew CaledoniaNigerNiueNorth KoreaNorthern CyprusNorthern Mariana IslandsOmanPakistanPalauPalestinePanamaPapua New GuineaPuerto RicoQatarRwandaSaint Kitts and NevisSaint LuciaSaint MartinSaint Vincent and the GrenadinesSamoaSan MarinoSão Tomé and PríncipeSeychellesSierra LeoneSingaporeSint MaartenSolomon IslandsSomaliaSomalilandSouth SudanSudanSurinameSyriaTajikistanTimor-LesteTogoTongaTrinidad and TobagoTurkmenistanTurks and Caicos IslandsTuvaluUnited States Virgin IslandsVanuatuVatican CityYemen

1. 1 · Publisher

   Wellcome Trust

   wellcome.org

2. 2 · Their file

   Wellcome Global Monitor 2020: Mental Health — ever too anxious or depressed to carry on

   wgm-mentalhealthmodule-crossnational-tabs.xlsx

3. 3 · Read by this site

   October 3, 2026

   Imported by a script that parses each figure and writes it down unrounded.

4. 4 · Stored as

   1 file, one per year

   It downloads as a CSV: anxiety-depression-all-editions-nations-inquiry.csv

5. 5 · Used on

   Its statistic page, and every profile it measures

   /statistics/anxiety-depression

From Wellcome's own crosstab workbook for the 2020 mental-health module: the weighted share answering yes, with people who did not know or refused to answer included in the base.

• Charted

  Adults Who Have Been Too Anxious or Depressed to Carry On by country

  Who is highest, the map, the spread, who rose and fell, and the records.

• Subjects

  • Health & Wellbeing

• Near neighbours

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