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Depression rates in designated WHO regions. Countries in the WHO Africa region, which represent the SSA countries, have a depression rate (4.1 ± 0.05%) which is significantly lower than that recorded in the Americas (4.8 ± 0.09%) and the European region (4.9 ± 0.1%) *p < 0.0001. One-Way ANOVA Kruskal-Wallis Post-hoc test. Primary data obtained from the WHO Global Burden of Disease Study 2015 (Depression and Other Common Mental Disorders Global Health Estimates, 2015).
