Major depressive episode U.S. youth by age 2017

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This statistic depicts the percentage of U.S. youth aged 12 to 17 years with a major depressive episode in the past year in 2017, by age. At that time, it was surveyed that approximately 11.8 percent of 14 year olds experienced a major depressive episode in the past year.

Percentage of U.S. youth aged 12 to 17 years with a major depressive episode in the past year as of 2017, by age

Age	Percentage of respondents
12 years	4.8%
13 years	8.8%
14 years	11.8%
15 years	17.2%
16 years	16.9%
17 years	18.5%
Total	13.3%

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Release date

September 2018

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Region

United States

Survey time period

2017

Number of respondents

base: around 70,000

Age group

12-17 years

Method of interview

Questionnaire

Supplementary notes

Major Depressive Episode (MDE) is defined as in the 4th edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-IV), which specifies a period of at least 2 weeks when a person experienced a depressed mood or loss of interest or pleasure in daily activities and had a majority of specified depression symptoms. Respondents with unknown past year MDE data were excluded.

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