Mental Health Crisis and Suicide
More than 700,000 people die by suicide each year and a billion live with a mental health condition.
Severity score
71.9
Critical · default weighting
Trajectory
Worsening
What this is
Roughly one in eight people worldwide lives with a mental disorder, and over 700,000 die by suicide annually, making it a leading cause of death among young people. Treatment gaps exceed 70 percent in many low and middle income countries. Adolescent mental health has deteriorated markedly in several high-income countries over the past decade, and the economic cost through lost productivity is among the largest of any health category.
Score breakdown
Loss of life
80Direct and attributable mortality, normalised across annual and cumulative tolls.
Lives negatively impacted
92People displaced, injured, food-insecure, exposed or otherwise materially harmed.
Financial cost
86Direct damage, lost output and health-system spend attributable to the event.
Environmental impact
3Emissions, habitat and biodiversity loss, contamination and irreversibility.
Trajectory
72Whether the situation is escalating, and how much worse it is plausibly getting.