Dementia in Australia

The following pages present statistics and information on:

It is vital for health-care professionals and policymakers to understand how many people are living with dementia in Australia, and how this may vary for different subgroups of the population. This information enables better policy and service planning for the current and future impact of dementia on the health of Australians and Australia’s health-care, aged care and social systems.

These pages also present the current data landscape for reporting on the population health impact of dementia and ways this may be improved in the future.

Refer to the Data tables for the underlying data presented in these pages.

For more information on the population health impacts of dementia among different population groups, see:

• First Nations Australians with dementia,
• Culturally and linguistically diverse people with dementia,
• Younger onset and childhood dementia,
• Dementia in other priority groups.

Key statistics