Annual growth in mental health treatment spending in U.S. 2009-2020
This statistic describes a projection of the annual growth in spending on mental health treatments in the United States from 2009 to 2020. From 2008 to 2009, expenditures on the treatment of mental health grew by 5.7 percent. Since the 1980s, expenditure on mental health has increased but the slow in growth in recent years may be linked to closures of specialty hospitals.