As per the Global Burden of Disease (GBD) study (India State-Level Disease Burden Initiative Neurological Disorders Collaborators, 2021), an estimated 129,000 deaths were attributed to Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias in 2019. GBD estimates (2019) indicate there were 117.14 Years of Life Lost (YLL’s) per 100,000 due to dementia (IHME, 2019).

References:

India State-Level Disease Burden Initiative Neurological Disorders Collaborators (2021). The burden of neurological disorders across the states of India: The Global Burden of Disease Study 1990-2019. The Lancet. Global health, 9(8), e1129–e1144.

Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) (2019).  GBD Compare. Seattle, WA: IHME, University of Washington, Available from http://vizhub.healthdata.org/gbd-compare.