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WHO Mental Health Atlas 2024 documents persistent global care gaps
The seventh edition adds new indicators on telehealth, community-based care, and human-rights compliant services.
The Mental Health Atlas is the WHO's recurring snapshot of how the world's mental health systems are organised, funded, and staffed. The 2024 edition draws on data from 144 countries — over 90% of the world's population — and adds, for the first time, indicators on telehealth and human-rights compliance in mental health services.
The picture is consistent with earlier editions and starker in some dimensions: spending is low and uneven, workforce remains thin, and most countries still rely heavily on standalone psychiatric hospitals rather than integrated community models.
Read the full Atlas at WHO for country-level data and methodology.
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