Out of 28 countries in the European Union, the UK comes 18th - below some of the poorer countries of eastern Europe.
The EU-funded Milestone study looked at the number of inpatient beds per 100,000 young people.
With a rate of 9.4 beds for young people suffering from disorders such as psychosis and severe anxiety, the UK has fewer beds than Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia - with rates of 39.5, 31.5 and 21.
Sweden has the least with 1.2 beds and Germany has the most with 64 beds per 100,000 young people - over fifty times as many.
An even lower ranking was seen in UK rates of child and adolescent psychiatrists - at 4.5 per 100,000 young people - with only Bulgaria, Hungary, Malta, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, having fewer.
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