While the worst of the COVID-19 pandemic may be behind us, its impact on Mind Health and Wellbeing continues to linger without signs of recovery. The global Internet-enabled population is still just managing to navigate life’s challenges and function productively. Little has changed in 2024.

In this report, we examine the association between the closeness of family relationships and the poor state of mental wellbeing among India’s young adults.

This is our fourth annual Mental State of the World Report that provides a perspective on the Internet-enabled global population. In focus this year is one key trend – that the dramatic decline in mental wellbeing that occurred between 2019 and 2020, and continued into 2021 through the COVID-19 pandemic, continues to persist with no sign of recovery.

In our inaugural Mental State of India Report we show the temporal and geographic variations in mental wellbeing of primarily English speaking internet-enabled individuals living in 36 states and Union Territories of India with a particular focus on younger generations and the relationship between mental wellbeing and income.

In our 2022 Mental State of the World Report, we show mental wellbeing comparisons of 64 countries and regions, highlighting the dramatically lower mental wellbeing of younger (18-24) generations across the globe, one that largely reflects a decline of the Social Self with each younger generation. Additionally, we focus on family relationships and friendships across the globe.

In our 2021 Mental State of the World Report, we show the mental wellbeing of the Internet- enabled populations of 34 countries, spanning 6 continents as well as highlight trends in mental wellbeing across age, gender, employment and education.

Newson, J. & Thiagarajan, T.

In our 2020 Mental State of the World Report we compare the mental wellbeing profiles of 8 countries, as well as highlighting differences across age and gender groups. We also report on key lifestyle factors that are revealing themselves as important drivers of mental wellbeing and discuss the impact of adversities and traumas associated with the Covid-19 pandemic.