A European study shows that Germans are close to being the most depressed in Europe. According to the new part of the European Survey (Ehis) published by the German Robert Koch Medical Institute today, 9.2% of those surveyed in Germany suffer from symptoms of depression, which is higher than the average within the European Union, which is 6.6%. Indeed, the proportion of people suffering from depression in Germany is almost the highest among the 25 European Union countries that participated in the questionnaire, as Germany ranks second among these countries in the rate of depression among its population, and is preceded only by Luxembourg, which has a depression rate of 10%.

According to a German news agency report, the study stated that its results may have been greatly affected by the wide debate at the level of public opinion in Germany on the issue of depression, which makes the sensitivity to the issue higher in Germany than in other countries of the Union.

In addition, the study authors do not rule out that the openness of those surveyed in Germany and their willingness to speak openly about their psychological suffering and mentioned in the questionnaire are among the reasons that made the percentage of people with depression more in Germany than in the rest of the European Union. About 25 thousand people participated in the survey.