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U.S. high school students suffering from depression 2017, by gender and ethnicity

Percentage of U.S. high school students who felt sad or hopeless in 2017, by gender and ethnicity

The data displays the share of American high school students in grades 9 to 12 with depression, by gender and ethnicity. According to the survey, 46.8% of female student respondents with a Hispanic background stated that they have felt sad or hopeless almost every day for two or more weeks in a row during the 12 months before the survey, so they stopped doing some usual activities.

Female 41.1 38.2 40.7 46.8
Male 21.4 21.4 17.3 21.2
Total 31.5 30.2 29.2 33.7