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How are global challenges impacting Gen Z mental health?

Gen Z are shaping the future—as purpose-driven consumers, workers, and changemakers redefining business and sustainability.

Yet their mental health is impacted, and they often lack the support needed to act and build the future they want.

By failing them, we strip them of their agency.

We can and must do better.

This inaugural perception study on youth mental health, led by the Global Coalition for Youth Mental Health, explores how Gen Z (ages 14-25) perceive and experience the mental health impact of today’s world.

It amplifies both their growing concerns and their resilience, creativity, and determination.

Understanding perception is the first step toward meaningful action. 

By listening more deeply — not just to the facts, but to the feelings — we can begin to design and scale solutions that are grounded in empathy and centered on human well-being.