Education and background
Psychoanaleptics are used to treat depression and ADHD, but also dementia. This is probably why the age group 80+ had the highest proportion (over 20 percent) of people on psychoanaleptics.
The figures also showed that ethnic Danes were more likely to be on psychoanaleptics than groups with an ethnic background other than Danish.
Among ethnic Danes, the proportion of people on psychoanaleptics was 9.3 percent in 2021, well above the 6.2 percent for immigrants from Western countries and 2.4 percent for descendants of immigrants from non-Western countries.
Finally, the statistics also revealed that there was a higher frequency of people with basic education (14.6 percent) on psychoanaleptic prescriptions compared to those with advanced education (5.8 percent).
See all the figures here (in Danish).
Source: The Nordic Page