Global Burden of Mental Disorders in Adolescents and Young Adults, 1990–2021

14,764.9 per 100,000 adolescents and young adults were estimated to have a mental disorder in 2021, up from 13,824.9 in 1990. This dataset, authored by Huiyuan Pang and shared on figshare, analyzes age-standardized prevalence and disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) for 10 mental disorder categories from the Global Burden of Disease 2021 study. It covers individuals aged 10 to 24 globally and uses joinpoint regression and age-period-cohort models to decompose trends.

Use Cases

• Analyze trends in anxiety and depressive disorder prevalence based on age-standardized rates from 1990 to 2021
• Model the impact of age, period, and cohort effects on mental disorder burden using the described age-period-cohort framework
• Compare mental disorder disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) across socio-demographic index (SDI) regions
• Investigate gender disparities in mental health burden, particularly the noted significant increases among females

Strengths

• Data is derived from the authoritative Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors Study (GBD) 2021
• Covers a 31-year time range from 1990 to 2021
• Includes uncertainty intervals (UI) for key metrics like prevalence and DALYs
• Analyzes 10 distinct mental disorder categories

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment
• The primary file format is DOCX, which may require conversion for computational analysis

Provenance

Source

Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors Study (GBD) 2021

Collection Method

Analysis of GBD 2021 data using joinpoint regression and age-period-cohort models

Time Range

1990 to 2021

Freshness

Last updated 2026-03-17 13:07:11; freshness should be verified

Geography

Global