Mental disorders now world's leading cause of disability, affecting 1.17 billion

1.17 billion people worldwide live with mental disorders, experiencing significant functional impairment and lost years of healthy life, with particularly severe impact on adolescents and women.

Over three decades, a quiet transformation has reshaped the landscape of human suffering: mental illness has become the world's leading cause of disability, now touching 1.17 billion lives across every nation on Earth. A landmark review in The Lancet, drawing on data from 204 countries, confirms what many clinicians have long sensed — that anxiety, depression, and related conditions are not peripheral concerns but central to the human condition in the modern age. The burden falls hardest on the young, on women, and on those in places where care remains a distant promise, revealing not merely a

Mental disorders now world's leading cause of disability, affecting 1.17 billion

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