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Prevalence of depression in children and adolescents

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Proportion of children and adolescents reporting 'feeling low' more than once a week in the European Union Member States in 2018

Source: HBSC (2018) Health Behaviour in School-aged children, World Health Organization Collaborative cross-national survey

  11 years old (%) 13 years old (%) 15 years old (%)
  Female Male Female Male Female Male
Belgium (Flanders) 11 14 9 16 9 20
Belgium (Wallonia) 14 16 15 22 18 32
Bulgaria 10 13 13 13 19 25
Czechia 9 13 11 24 13 30
Denmark 10 15 4 19 7 20
Germany 7 9 7 17 8 21
Estonia 16 23 34 14 20 41
Ireland 9 12 13 21 15 31
Greece 13 13 35 16 20 38
Spain 7 7 6 16 9 20
France 11 13 11 21 11 25
Croatia 12 13 9 21 11 28
Italy 23 32 44 24 28 53
Cyprus (data not available) (data not available) (data not available) (data not available) (data not available) (data not available)
Latvia 11 16 10 26 15 38
Lithuania 10 16 10 28 15 31
Luxembourg 13 20 13 26 15 31
Hungary 17 21 17 28 23 39
Malta 18 23 32 21 22 39
Netherlands 5 9 8 14 8 19
Austria 7 7 8 17 11 26
Poland 11 16 14 29 21 38
Portugal 11 14 11 26 16 28
Romania 30 29 38 27 24 44
Slovenia 7 10 11 23 11 35
Slovakia 8 12 9 19 10 20
Finland 11 20 8 27 15 32
Sweden 12 20 12 30 17 41