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Germany’s 2024 Data Shows Dementia Deaths Rise as Overall Mortality Falls

The toll is concentrated among people aged 80 and older, with women accounting for most deaths even as increases are steeper for men.

Eine alte Frau stützt sich auf einen Stuhl.
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Die Zahl der an Demenz verstorbenen Menschen in Deutschland ist im vergangenen Jahr um 4,4 Prozent auf rund 62.000 Männer und Frauen gestiegen. Bei Männern war der Anstieg größer als bei Frauen.

Overview

  • Destatis reports 61,927 dementia deaths in 2024, up 4.4% from 2023 and 23.2% above the 2015–2024 average.
  • About 89.1% of dementia fatalities occurred among people aged 80 or older, with a 4.6% year-on-year rise in that group.
  • More women died of dementia than men (40,680 vs. 21,247), though the increase relative to the decade average was larger for men (+27.9% vs. +20.8%).
  • Unspecified dementia (ICD F03) was the leading individual cause of death for women with 37,109 deaths, underscoring diagnostic limits in the data.
  • Total deaths fell to roughly 1.01 million in 2024 (−2% year-on-year), while circulatory diseases declined to 339,212 (−2.6%) and cancer deaths were nearly flat at 230,392.