In recent years, rising reports of youth depression % ofyouths ages 12 to 17 experiencing in the past year
Data on the prevalence of anxiety disorders is hard to come by among teens specifically. But 7% of youths ages 3 to 17 had such a condition in 2016-17, according to the National Survey of Children’s Health. Serious depression, meanwhile, has been on the rise among teens for the past several years, according to the National Survey on Drug Use and Health, an ongoing project of the federal Department of Health and Human Services. In 2016, 12.8% of youths ages 12 to 17 had experienced a major depressive episode in the past year, up from 8% as recently as 2010. For 9% of youths in 2016, their depression caused severe impairment. Fewer than half of youths with major depression said they’d been treated for it in the past year.
In recent years, rising reports  | of youth depression  | % ofyouths ages 12 to 17 experiencing  | in the past year  | 12.8  | Major  | depressive  | episodes  | 9.0  | 9 1.0  | 7.9  | 5.5  | Major depressive  | episodes depressive with severe  | impairment  | 2004  | 106  | 1908  | 10  | '12  | '14  | '16  | Source: 2016 National Survey on Drug Use and Health,  | Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration  | (Department of Health and Human Services).  | PEW RESEARCH CENTER 