MDD YLD ranking by world region in 2021

The slide shows YLDs from major depressive disorder ranked within the top 7 leading cause of YLDs across world regions.^1,2

References:

1.GBD 2021 Diseases and Injuries Collaborators. Global incidence, prevalence, years lived with disability (YLDs), disability-adjusted life-years (DALYs), and healthy life expectancy (HALE) for 371 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories and 811 subnational locations, 1990–2021: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021. Lancet 2024; 403 (10440): 2133–2161.

2.Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME), 2022. Available at https://vizhub.healthdata.org/gbd-results.