Paracelsus Recovery · Research
How is the world's mental health changing?
The Global Mental Health Index brings together official statistics on outcomes, access to care and living conditions, so countries can be compared openly and tracked over time.
Where version 2 stands
What it measures
Three pillars, one picture
The structure follows the original 2020 concept: how people are doing, whether care is there when they need it, and the conditions that shape where a country is heading.
Outcomes
Suicide, depression and anxiety, alcohol and drug harm, life evaluation.
Care
Psychiatrists and the wider workforce, psychiatric beds, public spending, treatment coverage, policy and law.
Conditions
Life satisfaction, social support and loneliness, unemployment, and how each outcome is changing over three years.
Why a new index
Nothing open does this yet
Existing products are surveys of self-selected samples, dashboards without a score, or one-off reports. None combines statistics-based scoring, broad coverage, a regular refresh, open licences and reproducible code.
Built only from open, official data
Every number is pulled by script from a public API and stored untouched, so any figure can be traced back to its source file. Sources whose licences do not allow reuse are left out until permission is in place.
Honest about uncertainty
When scores are published, each country will carry a rank interval from a sensitivity analysis, not a single position. Gaps and imputed values are flagged.
Fast where the data allows
Most inputs are annual and two to three years old. A quarterly pulse tracks the few series that move within the year, currently England and the United States.
Open to scrutiny
Method, code and changelog are versioned. An external statistical audit before the first ranking is part of the proposed design. See independence.
Focus set
EU member states, the UK, Switzerland, Israel, China, Brazil and the United States
The design is meant to extend to global coverage once the first 33 jurisdictions are complete.