The Prevalence of Dementia in Europe 2025

Alzheimer Europe's report, "The Prevalence of Dementia in Europe 2025” provides updated figures for the number of people living with dementia both for Europe as a whole, as well as the countries within.  It builds upon the work undertaken in the “Dementia in Europe Yearbook 2019”, in which Alzheimer Europe previously calculated the prevalence of dementia in Europe. The report applies prevalence estimates across 5-year age bands to UN World Population Prospects data 2024, for the years 2025 and 2050, yielding the following key findings:

• For 2025, there are an estimated 9,065,706 people with dementia living in EU27 countries and 12,122,979 for EU27 and non-EU countries[1] combined 
• For 2050, there will be an estimated 14,335,788 people with dementia in EU27 countries and 19,905,856 in EU and non-EU countries combined
• This means that, by 2050, the numbers are set to increase by 58% in the EU and by 64% across the whole of Europe.

The key message for EU and national decision-makers is that, with the number of people living with dementia increasing in this manner over the coming decades, they must act now, by investing sufficiently in health, care and social protection systems, providing adequate support for research, and implementing strong preventative interventions. Failure to do so can only exacerbate the challenges ahead.