Mental health of young people in a digital era: Cost of non-Europe report
Cost of non-Europe study for the European Parliamentary Research Service (EPRS), written by Ipsos and Milieu, July 2026. Its EU-27 model puts the cost of mental ill-health among people aged 10–24 at about €177 billion in 2024, and about €1.68 trillion over 2024–2033 if nothing changes. The cost covers healthcare, social protection, education and lost labour productivity (absenteeism, presenteeism, reduced lifetime earnings).
The Economic Case for Preventing Mental Ill Health
OECD Health Policy Studies report (30 April 2026) using microsimulation for the EU. Mental ill health is projected to lower GDP by an average 1.7% a year over 2025–2050, driven mainly by reduced workforce participation, absenteeism and presenteeism, and to account for about EUR 76 billion in annual healthcare costs (about 6% of health budgets). Scaling up interventions is largely cost-effective.
Disability statistics - poverty and income inequalities
Eurostat Statistics Explained article (EU-SILC data for 2024, extracted July 2025). In 2024, 28.8% of people with a disability in the EU were at risk of poverty or social exclusion, against 17.9% of people with no limitations. Without social transfers 68.2% of disabled people would have been at risk of poverty, against 20.7% after transfers. The article also shows a higher in-work poverty risk for disabled workers.