Asia Owid Dealt With Anxiety Depression Took Prescribed Medication

Asia-focused survey data from Our World in Data on dealing with anxiety or depression and taking prescribed medication. It contains 27 observations, one for each of 27 Asian countries, all from the year 2020. The dataset was repackaged by Electric Sheep Asia.

Use Cases

• Compare rates of prescribed medication use for anxiety or depression across different Asian countries based on survey data.
• Analyze the relationship between reported anxiety/depression and medication treatment at a national level.
• Benchmark mental health treatment indicators for a specific Asian country against regional data.

Strengths

• Data covers 27 distinct Asian countries.
• Provides a focused snapshot from a single year (2020).
• Sourced from the authoritative Our World in Data platform.

Limitations

• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.

Provenance

Source

Our World in Data

Time Range

2020–2020

Freshness

Last updated 2026-06-03 20:27:17; freshness should be verified.

Geography

27 Asia countries