Wars leave their marks on people - the physical damage is usually obvious, but the scars a war can leave in the psychological well-being of survivors often remain beneath the surface. Psychologists at Münster University have for the first time estimated the absolute numbers showing how many war survivors worldwide suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder or depression. The result was, that in 2015, there were about 1.45 billion people who had experienced a war in their own country between 1989 and 2015, about one billion of whom present adults - representing one in five of the world's population. ...
