Mental Illnesses: Depression Prevalence
Depression is another common mental illness in the US, with about 6.7% of the US population experiencing a major depressive disorder in the year prior to this survey, as you can see on the left-hand side of the figure, again, and about 16.5% experience this major depressive episode at some point during their lifetime up through the survey. And so, similar to anxiety, women are also more likely than men to experience depression, and people over 60 years old are much less likely to experience depression compared to any other groups.