{"id":139628,"date":"2025-09-10T07:52:00","date_gmt":"2025-09-10T11:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=139628"},"modified":"2025-09-10T18:57:21","modified_gmt":"2025-09-10T22:57:21","slug":"gallup-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=139628","title":{"rendered":"(Gallup) U.S. Depression Rate Remains Historically High"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The percentage of U.S. adults who report currently having or being treated for depression has exceeded 18% in both 2024 and 2025, up about eight percentage points since the initial measurement in 2015. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The current rate of 18.3% measured so far in 2025 projects to an estimated 47.8 million Americans suffering from depression. Most of the increase has occurred since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020. Gallup obtained the most recent results for 2025 Feb. 18-26 and May 27-June 4, 2025, with 11,288 U.S. adults surveyed by web as part of the probability-based Gallup Panel. Respondents were asked, \u201cHas a doctor or nurse ever told you that you have depression?\u201d and if yes, \u201cDo you currently have or are you currently being treated for depression?\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Both metrics are part of the ongoing Gallup National Health and Well-Being Index. The percentage of adults who report having been diagnosed with depression in their lifetime stands at 28.5%, hovering near the record high of 29.0% measured in the first quarter of 2023.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.gallup.com\/poll\/694199\/u.s.-depression-rate-remains-historically-high.aspx\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p><blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">U.S. Depression Rate Remains Historically High <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/P24MAawQa4\">https:\/\/t.co\/P24MAawQa4<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Rasha B Basha (@basharabasha_ra) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/basharabasha_ra\/status\/1965508749000572983?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 9, 2025<\/a><\/blockquote> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The percentage of U.S. adults who report currently having or being treated for depression has exceeded 18% in both 2024 and 2025, up about eight percentage points since the initial measurement in 2015. The current rate of 18.3% measured so<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=139628\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,209,175,104,129],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-139628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-americau-s-a","category-anthropology","category-health-medicine","category-psychology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139628","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=139628"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139628\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":139632,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139628\/revisions\/139632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=139628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=139628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=139628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}