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. 2015 Feb 27;24(3):210–226. doi: 10.1017/S2045796015000189

Table 1.

Lifetime and 12-month prevalence of DSM-IV/CIDI MDD along with the proportions of respondents with lifetime and 12-month MDD who have comorbid DSM-IV/CIDI anxiety disordersa in the WHO WMH Surveys

Lifetime MDD 12-Month MDD
Lifetime MDD Lifetime anxiety/ Lifetime MDD 12-month MDD Lifetime anxiety/12-month MDD 12-month anxiety/12-month MDD
% (s.e.) % (s.e.) % (s.e.) % (s.e.) % (s.e.) (n)
I. Low/Middle Income
Brazil – São Paulo 18.0 (0.8) 50.0 (2.2) 10.1 (0.6) 51.2 (2.9) 39.9 (2.8) (2942)
Bulgaria 6.7 (0.5) 32.5 (3.3) 3.0 (0.3) 37.8 (5.0) 36.7 (4.9) (2233)
Colombia 11.8 (0.7) 50.4 (3.0) 5.3 (0.5) 63.8 (4.1) 50.7 (4.4) (2381)
Columbia – Medellin 9.9 (0.7) 51.4 (3.6) 3.8 (0.4) 54.0 (5.2) 47.3 (5.1) (1673)
Iraq 7.2 (0.6) 46.1 (4.2) 3.9 (0.4) 50.7 (5.8) 42.1 (5.7) (4332)
Lebanon 10.3 (0.8) 44.7 (3.6) 4.9 (0.5) 43.6 (5.3) 35.1 (5.0) (1031)
Mexico 7.6 (0.5) 46.5 (2.9) 3.7 (0.3) 59.4 (3.9) 46.0 (4.1) (2362)
Nigeria 3.2 (0.3) 19.1 (3.5) 1.1 (0.2) 20.3 (5.9) 18.7 (5.8) (2143)
Peru 6.4 (0.4) 35.9 (3.3) 2.7 (0.3) 49.5 (5.4) 37.2 (5.1) (1801)
PRCb – Beijing/Shanghai 3.8 (0.4) 25.3 (6.0) 2.0 (0.3) 36.8 (9.5) 33.6 (9.7) (1628)
PRCb – Shenzhen 6.8 (0.6) 18.7 (3.4) 3.6 (0.4) 22.0 (3.8) 16.2 (3.4) (2475)
Romania 2.9 (0.4) 27.0 (5.7) 1.5 (0.3) 31.5 (8.8) 25.9 (8.4) (2357)
Total 8.1 (0.2) 42.4 (1.1) 4.0 (0.1) 48.0 (1.6) 38.8 (1.5) (27 358)
II. High Income
Australia 12.8 (0.5) 51.4 (2.1) 4.8 (0.3) 59.0 (3.5) 49.0 (3.4) (8841)
Belgium 14.1 (1.1) 29.8 (3.3) 5.2 (0.7) 37.7 (6.3) 29.9 (5.6) (1043)
France 20.4 (1.2) 41.6 (2.6) 5.6 (0.6) 51.0 (5.3) 41.8 (5.3) (1436)
Germany 10.3 (0.7) 45.0 (3.1) 3.1 (0.4) 57.9 (5.6) 48.7 (5.7) (1323)
Israel 9.8 (0.4) 21.9 (2.0) 5.9 (0.4) 23.7 (2.7) 18.1 (2.4) (4859)
Italy 9.7 (0.5) 39.3 (2.6) 2.9 (0.3) 46.2 (5.1) 41.3 (5.0) (1779)
Japan 6.8 (0.5) 27.6 (3.5) 2.4 (0.3) 42.2 (6.7) 29.1 (5.9) (1682)
Netherlands 18.0 (1.3) 40.6 (3.3) 4.9 (0.7) 49.3 (6.6) 32.5 (5.9) (1094)
New Zealand 15.8 (0.5) 52.4 (1.4) 5.7 (0.3) 60.3 (2.4) 49.5 (2.4) (7312)
Northern Ireland 17.7 (1.0) 56.8 (2.8) 8.8 (0.7) 61.4 (4.4) 47.2 (4.3) (1986)
Poland 3.8 (0.3) 32.2 (3.6) 1.6 (0.2) 36.7 (5.1) 27.8 (4.6) (4000)
Portugal 17.4 (0.8) 45.3 (2.1) 7.0 (0.5) 49.8 (3.3) 42.5 (3.3) (2060)
Spain 10.4 (0.6) 34.9 (2.6) 3.8 (0.3) 48.4 (4.5) 40.0 (4.3) (2121)
Spain – Murcia 15.3 (1.0) 32.0 (3.0) 6.9 (0.7) 36.7 (4.8) 23.2 (3.8) (1459)
US 16.6 (0.5) 62.6 (1.4) 6.7 (0.3) 71.9 (1.9) 58.5 (2.2) (5692)
Total 13.0 (0.2) 46.9 (0.7) 5.1 (0.1) 53.3 (1.1) 42.9 (1.1) (46 687)
III. Total 11.2 (0.1) 45.7 (0.6) 4.7 (0.1) 51.7 (0.9) 41.6 (0.9) (74 045)

aAnxiety disorders include generalised anxiety disorder, panic disorder with or without agoraphobia, agoraphobia without a history of panic disorder, specific phobia, social phobia, separation anxiety and post-traumatic stress disorder.

bPeople's Republic of China.