‘From 1990 to 2019, the global number of DALYs due to mental disorders increased from 80.8 million 
to 125.3 million, …. Age -standardised DALY rates remained largely consistent between 1990 
(1581·DALYs per 100,000 population) and 2019 (1566 DALYs per 100,000 population). YLDs 226 
contributed to almost all of the mental disorder burden, accounting for 125.3 million YLDs or 14.6% of 
global YLDs in 2019.’227  
In 2019 the WHO stated that one in every eight people, or 970 million people around the world,  were