Share of older adults with mental health needs worldwide 2021
In 2021, older French adults were most likely to report a mental health need compared to older adults of other high-income countries. When looking at a breakdown of U.S. adults by ethnicity, Hispanic adults had even higher mental health needs than the French. Mental health needs are defined here has having been diagnosed with mental health conditions, or the respondent experienced emotional distress they had difficulties coping with in the past 12 months.
This statistic displays the percentage of adults aged 65 and older who reported a mental health need in 2021 worldwide.