Published on: 2026-10-02
Source: United Nations
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Anxiety and depressive disorders are taking more and more years of healthy life from people, and dementia is becoming one of the leading causes of death. From 2019 to 2023, the rate of healthy life years lost due to anxiety disorders increased by almost 45 percent, and due to depression by about 20 percent. In 2023, they took away about 110 million healthy life years from people. These data are contained in new global estimates published on Friday by the World Health Organization (WHO). The estimates cover the period from 2000 to 2023.
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