Around one in 35 young Australians aged 4-17 experience a depressive disorder.

Breakdown: 2.8% of Australians aged 4-17 have experienced an affective disorder. * This is equivalent to 112,000 young people.

One in four young Australians currently has a mental health condition.

Breakdown: 26.4% of Australians aged 16 to 24 currently have experienced a mental health disorder in the last 12 months.5 This figure includes young people with a substance use disorder. This is equivalent to 750,000 young people today.

One in fourteen young Australians (6.9%) aged 4-17 experienced an anxiety disorder in 2015. This is equivalent to approximately 278,000 young people.

Breakdown: 6.9% of Australians aged 4-17 experienced an anxiety** disorder in 2015.3 This is equivalent to 278,000 young people.

Suicide is the biggest killer of young Australians and accounts for the deaths of more young people than car accidents

Breakdown: 324 Australians (10.5 per 100,000) aged 15-24 dying by suicide in 2012. This compares to 198 (6.4 per 100,000) who died in car accidents (the second highest killer).

Just this year, 2019, Mission Australia had 25,126 participants in their Youth Survey and reported that young people between the age group of 15 to 19 years old are indeed having concerns in relation to mental health, the environment, bullying and voice.

Running on its third year, mental health has been the most important issue that is reported among Australians. Other four related concerns topping the list includes: coping with stress, school or study problems, mental health and body image.

Compared to the previous year, the environment played an astounding significance, tripling its way from eight place to second place in the list of issues young people consider most important.

One of the firsts in 2019 was having these young people asked about whether or not they have experienced bullying, and reports have it that more than one in five respondents have confirmed they indeed experienced it for the past 12 months, according to these young participants. More so, almost about half of these young people have confirmed that the past year, 2018, has been the same for them. Correspondingly, the survey has conferred that there are a lot of young people from the regional areas have been bullied the past year compared to those that are from big and major cities.