Table 2.

Age-standardised prevalence of depressive symptoms and proportion of depressive cases treated in the last year in Peru by selected sociodemographic characteristics (2014–2018, with cut-off point 15)

	2014 (%)	2015 (%)	2016 (%)	2017 (%)	2018 (%)
Age-standardised prevalence of depressive symptoms in the last 2 weeks*
Sex
Male	1.5	1.9	1.9	1.3	1.1
Female	3.6	3.9	4.0	3.3	3.4
Age
15–34	1.5	1.5	1.6	1.2	1.1
35–54	2.9	2.6	2.6	2.5	2.3
55–74	4.0	5.7	5.0	4.1	4.1
75+	6.7	9.0	11.2	6.0	6.5
Area
Rural	2.9	3.5	3.4	3.2	3.3
Urban	2.5	2.5	2.7	2.1	2.0
Wealth index
Very low	3.0	3.8	3.6	3.2	3.5
Low	3.1	3.3	2.8	3.1	2.7
Middle	3.3	3.2	3.5	2.8	2.4
High	2.5	2.1	2.6	1.6	1.7
Very high	1.6	1.7	1.7	1.2	1.2
Age-standardised prevalence of depressive symptoms in the last year*
Sex
Male	3.7	4.3	4.0	3.5	3.9
Female	8.5	9.1	9.3	8.2	8.2
Age
15–34	4.5	4.4	4.6	4.1	4.3
35–54	6.9	6.7	6.5	6.0	6.1
55–74	8.1	10.6	9.7	9.3	9.0
75+	12.5	15.3	17.3	9.6	13.2
Area
Rural	7.2	7.9	7.6	7.4	8.1
Urban	5.9	6.0	6.1	5.5	5.6
Wealth index
Very low	7.4	8.1	7.8	7.3	8.4
Low	7.4	7.7	7.1	7.4	7.1
Middle	7.1	6.9	7.4	6.5	6.6
High	5.4	5.7	5.9	4.6	5.0
Very high	4.8	4.5	4.3	4.3	4.3
Proportion of depressive cases treated in the last year†
Sex
Male	13.3	11.9	10.7	10.6	11.1
Female	15.1	14.7	16.9	16.6	15.9
Age
15–34	15.7	14.8	19.7	19.2	14.7
35–54	17.3	16.1	18.0	15.9	13.6
55–74	12.1	12.2	10.5	10.0	16.0
75+	7.4	8.5	6.2	10.0	12.5
Area
Rural	7.9	7.2	7.1	5.6	7.8
Urban	17.5	18.6	21.0	18.4	16.9
Wealth index
Very low	5.8	5.7	5.8	3.3	6.2
Low	8.8	11.6	14.1	13.2	10.1
Middle	16.3	13.8	17.1	15.3	17.4
High	20.3	22.0	24.7	14.2	20.4
Very high	27.1	31.3	31.0	38.4	26.1

Two-stage sample design was taken into account for percentage estimations.

*The analysis considered the total of the Peruvian population.

†An analysis is done by subgroups, considering only people who have depressive symptoms.