Depression Worldwide - a #Visualization
Well, technically, this is the Global Burden of Depressive Disorders, and is part of a study that was conducted by researchers in Queensland. The maps below have some fairly interesting (and sometimes unexpected?) findings:
- Afghanistan, Algeria, Libya and Syria do very poorly
- Australia, China, Japan, Mexico and New Zealand do very well
- Finland and Norway do poorly, but Sweden is doing just fine.
- Russia does quite poorly
The war zones I completely understand - you'd have to be depressed.
Japan and Mexico are somewhat surprising, as well as China - anyone care to comment?
As for the northern countries, Finland and Norway I'd put down to the long winters, but that really doesn't explain Sweden doing so well...
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