Irish ‘most likely to be depressed if uneducated’

Irish people are more likely than those in all other developed countries to suffer depression if they are less well educated.

The finding comes from an analysis of international health surveys, one showing that 23% of 25-to 64-year-olds without a Leaving Cert reported having depression in the past year, compared to just 9% of Irish people with a third-level education.

While depression levels differed depending on education levels in most of the 30 countries where people were surveyed, the gap was by far the widest here.