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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2024 Feb 5.
Published in final edited form as: Alzheimers Dement. 2023 Jan 8;19(7):2865–2873. doi: 10.1002/alz.12901

TABLE 3.

Subcategory costs of dementia (billion US $ and percent of total cost) in 2019, by World Bank country classification

Cost subcategory Direct medical costs
Direct social sector costs
Informal care costs
Total costs
World Bank country classification 2019 US $ billion % US $ billion % US $ billion % US $ billion %
Low-income countries 0.2 4.6 0.4 10.5 3.0 84.9 3.5 100
Lower-middle-income countries 4.8 10.9 5.8 13.2 33.6 75.9 44.3 100
Upper-middle-income countries 54.4 18.5 54.8 18.7 184.0 62.8 293.2 100
Low- and middle-income-countriesa 59.4 17.4 61.0 17.9 220.6 64.7 341.0 100
High-income countries 153.9 15.8 387.7 39.9 430.8 44.3 972.3 100
All 213.2 16.2 448.7 34.2 651.4 49.6 1313.4 100
a

Low- and middle-income countries = low-income countries + lower-middle-income countries + upper-middle-income countries.