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UNITED NATIONS - Poverty makes people up to three times more likely to suffer from mental illnesses such as depression and anxiety compared to the wealthy, the United Nations said in a report released Thursday.Competitive, consumption-oriented modern life is a threat to mental health, said a study compiled by the UN special rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights, Olivier De Schutter. The report was to be presented Thursday to the UN General Assembly.
It said more than 970 million people around the world -- 11 percent of the population -- suffer from some kind of mental illness.Of these, 280 million have depression and 301 million suffer from anxiety, it added.Every year suicide claims the lives of around 700,000 people and it is now the fourth leading cause of death among people aged 15 to 29.
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