24%
Percentage of U.S. adults who visited a mental health professional in 2025, compared with 13% in 2004 and 23% in 2022. Gen Z and millennial adults averaged more than four mental health visits a year, more than twice the rate of baby boomers and members of the silent generation. Overall, 8% of adults visited a mental health provider more than 10 times in 2025, compared with 4% in 2004.
29%
Percentage of U.S. adults who say their mental health is “excellent,” compared with 43% of U.S. adults who said so just before the COVID-19 pandemic. A big drop came 8 months after the start of the pandemic, from 43% in 2019 to 34% in 2020. Overall, declines in mental health were sharpest among U.S. adults who were young and college-educated, compared with older adults and those with less education.
39%
Percentage of adults worldwide in 2025 who said they worried a lot the previous day, compared with 37% who said they felt a lot of stress, 26% who said they felt a lot of sadness, and 22% who said they felt a lot of anger the previous day. These negative emotions were uniformly higher among people in countries that experience more violence and conflict than among those in more peaceful countries.
