Overview

• Mexico’s INEGI reports that more than 49% of people have experienced anxiety symptoms, underscoring a nationwide rise in stress and burnout indicators.
• Argentina’s UBA/OPSA finds roughly 35% of the population with psychological distress, while a new Buenos Aires survey reports 28.6% with anxiety or depressive symptoms, highest among women, youth and those under greater socioeconomic strain.
• A Mercer Marsh Beneficios study shows 58% of companies in Latin America and the Caribbean view mental health as strategic, yet only 12% effectively manage psychosocial risks and just 9% assess burnout, with limited verification of digital providers.
• In Querétaro, Mexico, PSYQUE I.A.P. reports a 46% jump in recorded depression cases in 2024 and launches a call to expand prevention, detection and access to therapy as the state ranks eighth nationally in suicide rates.
• The WHO estimates more than one billion people live with a mental disorder and notes large productivity losses, while PAHO gauges that only about one in five people in the region receives treatment.