US EditionFewer Deaths in Germany, but More Deaths with Dementia
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The number of people dying of dementia in Germany continues to increase.
The number of people who die with dementia in Germany has increased again last year. Especially in women, the disease is one of the most common causes of death, but men are also increasingly affected.
Life expectancy in Germany has been increasing for years. However, this also increases the risk of developing dementia. This is also reflected increasingly in the statistics of the causes of death. The number of death cases of dementia increases by 4.4 percent in 2024. Men in particular are responsible for this increase.
Although fewer people died in this country last year as a whole, a figure is rising: the deaths of dementia sufferers. It is not only women who die more frequently, there is also an increase in men.
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More and more people in Germany are dying of dementia. Women are particularly affected - but the number of women is rising particularly strongly.
The number of people who died from dementia in Germany has recently continued to rise. According to the results of the cause of death statistics, 61,927 deaths were caused by dementia in 2024, as the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) announced on Wednesday. This was 4.4 percent more than the previous year and 23.2 percent more than the ten-year average from 2015 to 2024. Dementia in its various forms has been one of the most common causes of…
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