Distribution of dementia deaths in the U.S. 2010-2017, by type of dementia
This statistic shows the distribution of deaths attributed to dementia in the U.S. from 2010 to 2017, by type of dementia. In 2017, there were a total of 261,914 deaths in which dementia was the underlying cause. Alzheimer's disease accounted for 46.4 percent of these deaths.