SOCIODEMOGRAPHIC CHARACTERISTICS Fig. 1 shows the age and gender distribution of the re‑ spondents. As the respondents were at least 16 years of age to participate and due to the method of online data collection used in the survey described above, give rise to a skewed distribution towards a younger age group. The survey also captured 27 respondents who identified them‑ selves as transgender or non-binary. Fig. 2 shows movements of survey respondents across various WHO regions as well as gender distribution of ref‑ ugees and migrants for these regions. The majority of the participants were living in high-income countries (Fig. 3a) and originated from lower-middle or low-income countries (Fig. 3b). Various epidemiological studies have shown a higher prev‑ alence and mortality burden for COVID‑19 among older age groups, particularly those older than 60 years. However, this group is underrepresented among the survey partic‑ ipants. Most of the survey respondents had some form of edu‑ cation, with a majority having higher education (Fig. 4), although 10% had primary or no education whatsoever. The majority of the participants were employed with the remaining being unemployed, with or without unemploy‑ ment allowance, students, homemakers, pensioners and parental leave. FIG. 1. Age and gender profile of the survey respondents 75+ 70—74 65—69 60—64 55—59 Age groups 50—54 45—49 40—44 35—39 30—34 25—29 20—24 15—19 10 5 0 5 10 15 Population  Female    Male Note: data from 25 708 respondents (11 403 female, 14 278 male, 17 non-binary, 10 trans). Sociodemographic characteristics | 7