[DSemba]

On the other hand, NIMH says 31.1% of U.S. adults have anxiety https://www.nimh.nih.gov/health/statistics/any-anxiety-disor...

[pcthrowaway]

I suspect there's a lot of confusion that happens with anxiety[1] being an emotion, and anxiety disorders[2] being clinically diagnosable mental health conditions.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anxiety

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anxiety_disorder

[JohnFen]

That data looks to be about 20 years older than the data in the report I linked to. That's a large time differential. Directly comparing them may be misleading.