Chronic kidney disease in Australia

In 1999-2000, up to 11% of adults aged 25 years and over had evidence of reduced kidney function.
There were nearly five times as many Indigenous cases of treated ESKD as would be expected from Australia's national prevalence rate.
At the end of 2006, 6,845 people were living with a functioning kidney transplant and 9,182 had received dialysis treatment.
There were 641 kidney transplants in 2006, an increase of 3% from 2005, and 1,344 people were on the waiting list for a transplant.
In 2005, CDK contributed to 11,954 deaths (6,367 males and 5,587 females) - 9% of total deaths in Australia.

In 2005-06:

day-admission for dialysis was the leading cause of hospitalisations (12.1% of all hospitalisations)
CKD was the primary reason for admission in 28,955 non-dialysis related hospitalisations
a hospital stay for CKD averaged about 4.5 days (excluding day-admission for dialysis)
2 per 1,000 GP encounters were for CKD, equating to around 177,400 Medicare-reimbursed GP consultations.