About 280 million people around the world live with depression. That's roughly 1 in 20 adults.
This isn't one sad week. It means low mood, or losing interest in things, deep enough and long enough that a doctor would call it depression.
Picture twenty adults waiting at a bus stop. Odds are, one of them is carrying it right now.
One honest note: nobody counted every person on Earth. This is a careful estimate from the World Health Organization, built from surveys — and it can shift, because countries measure depression in different ways.
