世衛組織報告顯示 全球超3億人受抑鬱症困擾

More than 4% of the world's population lives with depression, the World Health Organization said.

世界衛生組織近日表示，全球超過4%的人口患有抑鬱症。

An estimated 322 million people were suffering depressive disorders in 2015, a rise of 18.4% in a decade, the agency said in a report.

世衛組織在一份報告中稱，2015年約有3.22億人患有抑鬱症，比10年前增長了18.4%。

"Depression is the top cause of disability in the world today," Dr Dan Chisholm from WHO's Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse said in a news briefing.

世衛組織精神健康和藥物濫用部門的丹·奇澤姆博士在一場新聞發佈會上說道：“抑鬱症已經成爲了今天全球範圍內頭號致殘元兇。”

Across the globe, 250 million people suffer anxiety disorders, including phobias, panic attacks, obsessive-compulsive disorder and post-traumatic stress disorder.

此外，全球還有2.5億人口患有焦慮症，包括恐懼症、恐慌症、強迫症和創傷後應激障礙等。

About 80% of those stricken with mental illness live in low- and middle-income countries.

約80%的精神疾病患者都生活在中低收入國家。

Three age groups were particularly vulnerable to depression - youth, pregnant or post-partum women and the elderly.

三個年齡羣體的人尤其容易患上抑鬱症：年輕人羣、孕婦及產後婦女和老年人羣。

An estimated 800,000 people die by suicide each year, a "pretty horrifying figure", Chisholm said, before adding that it is more common in males in higher income countries, but more common in females in lower and middle-income countries.

奇澤姆博士稱，據估計，全球每年會有80萬人自殺，這是一個非常恐怖的數字。他還表示，在高收入國家中，自殺現象在男性中更爲普遍，而在中低收入國家則是女性更爲普遍。