Table 2.
Prevalence of exposure to natural disaster in the WHO World Mental Health Surveys (n = 56 872)
| Country by income category | Prevalence of lifetime exposure to natural disaster
|
Proportion of respondents exposed to natural disaster with related trauma in the same yeara
|
Prevalence of lifetime exposure to complex natural disaster traumab
|
(n) | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| % | (se) | % | (se) | % | (se) | ||
| Low/lower-middle income | |||||||
| Colombia | 9.9 | (1.1) | 1.8 | (0.4) | 18.5 | (3.3) | (2381) |
| India (Pondicherry) | 0.0 | (0.0) | 0.0 | (0.0) | NA | NA | (1373) |
| Nigeria | 2.4 | (0.4) | 0.6 | (0.1) | 23.0 | (6.8) | (2143) |
| China (Beijing/Shanghai) | 18.9 | (1.6) | 0.9 | (0.3) | 4.7 | (1.8) | (1628) |
| Ukraine | 2.9 | (0.7) | 0.2 | (0.1) | 5.6 | (2.5) | (1720) |
| Total | 7.0 | (0.4) | 0.8 | (0.1) | 11.3 | (1.6) | (9245) |
| Upper-middle income | |||||||
| Brazil (Sao Paolo) | 0.0 | (0.0) | 0.0 | (0.0) | NA | NA | (2942) |
| Bulgaria | 1.3 | (0.3) | 0.2 | (0.1) | 15.4 | (9.2) | (2233) |
| Lebanon | 5.9 | (1.2) | 0.6 | (0.5) | 10.1 | (7.8) | (1031) |
| Mexico | 12.2 | (1.3) | 1.1 | (0.3) | 9.0 | (2.5) | (2362) |
| Romania | 5.1 | (0.5) | 0.5 | (0.2) | 10.4 | (4.0) | (2357) |
| South Africa | 4.1 | (0.5) | 0.7 | (0.2) | 15.8 | (3.4) | (4315) |
| Total | 4.4 | (0.3) | 0.5 | (0.1) | 11.4 | (1.8) | (15 240) |
| High income | |||||||
| Belgium | 4.4 | (1.3) | 0.1 | (0.1) | 2.8 | (2.3) | (1043) |
| France | 7.8 | (1.3) | 0.8 | (0.3) | 9.7 | (4.4) | (1436) |
| Germany | 5.5 | (0.7) | 0.2 | (0.2) | 3.9 | (3.1) | (1323) |
| Israel | 1.6 | (0.2) | 0.3 | (0.1) | 18.9 | (4.2) | (4859) |
| Italy | 7.8 | (1.3) | 0.4 | (0.2) | 5.7 | (2.2) | (1779) |
| Japan | 5.4 | (0.7) | 0.6 | (0.2) | 10.8 | (4.1) | (1682) |
| Netherlands | 3.9 | (1.1) | 0.3 | (0.2) | 6.5 | (4.3) | (1094) |
| New Zealand | 9.6 | (0.6) | 1.0 | (0.2) | 11.0 | (1.7) | (7312) |
| Northern Ireland | 1.4 | (0.6) | 0.6 | (0.5) | 44.6 | (20.7) | (1986) |
| Portugal | 4.2 | (0.5) | 0.3 | (0.1) | 7.6 | (2.8) | (2060) |
| Spain | 2.9 | (0.5) | 0.2 | (0.1) | 8.1 | (3.4) | (2121) |
| United States | 17.4 | (1.0) | 1.9 | (0.2) | 11.2 | (1.1) | (5692) |
| Total | 7.5 | (0.3) | 0.8 | (0.1) | 10.7 | (0.8) | (32 387) |
| Total | 6.6 | (0.2) | 0.7 | (0.1) | 10.9 | (0.7) | (56 872) |
a
Proportion of respondents exposed to a natural disaster who also experienced an additional related trauma in the same year as the natural disaster. See Methods section for details.
b
Total proportion of respondents exposed to complex natural disaster trauma. Complex natural disaster trauma involves exposure to a natural disaster and at least one additional related trauma in the same year as the natural disaster. See Methods section for details.