Facts and figures

More than 70,000 Kiwis are living with dementia mate wareware today, rising to nearly 170,000 by 2050.

Four in five New Zealanders know or have known someone living with dementia mate wareware.

Dementia mate wareware affects women 30 percent more than men.

Dementia costs Aotearoa around $2.5 billion today, projected to hit nearly $6 billion per year by 2050.

Residential care makes up about half of government dementia costs ($1.21 billion).

Dementia mate wareware numbers are increasing at a faster rate among Māori, Pacific peoples and Asian communities.

Care partners provide over a million hours of unpaid care each week.

Every three seconds, someone in the world develops dementia mate wareware.

62 percent of healthcare workers mistakenly think dementia mate wareware is a normal part of aging.

There are more than 55 million people worldwide living with dementia mate wareware. This number will almost double every 20 years, reaching 139 million in 2050.

Most of this growth will occur in developing countries, with 60 percent of people with dementia currently in low and middle-income countries, rising to 71 percent by 2050.

The fastest growth in the elderly population is taking place in China, India, and their south Asian and western Pacific neighbours.

Source: Alzheimer’s Disease International