Global Health Care Spending for Dementia Estimates and Projections 2000-2050

This dataset contains retrospective estimates for healthcare spending attributable to dementia for 204 countries from 2000 to 2019 and prospective spending estimates from 2020 to 2050 under multiple scenarios. Final estimates are provided including direct and indirect care costs attributable to dementia per dementia case. Direct costs refer to the medical spending on dementia. Indirect costs refer to the economic burden of informal care for people with dementia. All spending is reported in 2019 United States dollars. Future estimates report the same model outputs as those reported in the retrospective model but include both reference and alternative scenarios based on accelerated diagnosis rates, unit costs, care setting rates and decelerated care setting rates.