Table 1.

Sample characteristics and population estimates of the prevalence of perceived stigma, chronic physical condition and mental disorder by country. The World Mental Health (WMH) Surveys.

					Among people with significant activity limitation
Country	Sample Size N	Response Rate %	Activity Limitation		Embarrassment (%)	Discrimination (%)	Perceived Stigma^* (%)	Chronic physical condition (%)	Mental disorder (%)
Country	Sample Size N	Response Rate %	N	%	Embarrassment (%)	Discrimination (%)	Perceived Stigma^* (%)	Chronic physical condition (%)	Mental disorder (%)
The Ameritas
Colombia	4426	87.7	173	5.0	33.6	23.8	17.8	37.8	29.8
Mexico	5782	76.6	185	4.6	45.1	25.6	21.0	27.3	32.2
United States	9282	70.9	1154	16.2	31.1	13.8	8.5	53.2	36.5
Asia
Japan	2436	56.4	97	7.5	48.4	9.9	8.7	39.7	11.2
Beijing	2633	74.8	69	5.0	36.2	20.2	12.4	39.4	17.7
Shanghai	2568	74.6	41	6.5	44.3	37.7	22.4	49.6	5.2
Lebanon	2857	70.0	198	13.5	25.3	14.8	9.2	28.3	20.4
Israel	4859	79.3	1089	22.6	53.8	24.6	20.2	49.4	20.4
Oceania
New Zealand	12,992	73.3	1393	14.5	31.9	14.6	8.7	46.9	28.2
Europe
Belgium	2419	50.6	205	13.7	37.7	14.8	12.5	38.2	22.1
France	2894	45.9	244	13.1	76.7	13.0	12.8	31.8	25.9
Germany	3555	57.8	219	13.5	19.6	6.2	3.2	49.3	13.6
Italy	4712	71.3	215	10.0	37.8	13.5	13.1	35.3	18.9
Netherlands	2372	56.4	291	20.3	20.7	15.3	6.7	45.7	20.2
Spain	5473	78.6	376	10.3	15.2	11.7	8.2	41.4	20.5
Ukraine	4725	78.3	506	24.1	87.4	32.4	32.1	59.2	28.6
Africa
Nigeria	6752	79.3	1089	22.6	4.4	17.5	9.7	25.3	7.8

All countries			6574	13.5	41.0	18.0	13.5	46.6	25.5

Developing countries			1291	8.6	56.0	26.2	22.1	44.4	24.7

Developed countries			5283	15.5	37.8	16.3	11.7	47.1	25.6

Stigma was considered present when both embarrassment and discrimination were reported.