Statistics on Parkinson’s Disease

• There are nearly 36,400 people living with Parkinson’s throughout North and South Carolina.
• As many as one million Americans live with Parkinson’s disease, which is more than the combined number of people diagnosed with multiple sclerosis, muscular dystrophy and Lou Gehrig’s disease.
• Approximately 60,000 Americans are diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease each year, and this number does not reflect the thousands of cases that go undetected.
• An estimated seven to 10 million people worldwide are living with Parkinson’s disease.
• Incidence of Parkinson’s increases with age, but an estimated four percent of people with PD are diagnosed before the age of 50.

• Men are one and a half times more likely to have Parkinson’s than women.

What Does Parkinson’s Cost?

• The combined direct and indirect cost of Parkinson’s, including treatment, social security payments and lost income from inability to work, is estimated to be nearly $25 billion per year in the United States alone.
• Medication costs for an individual person with PD average $2,500 a year, and therapeutic surgery can cost up to $100,000 dollars per patient.