An estimated 11% of people (1.7 million Australians) aged 18 and over had biomedical signs of CKD in 2011–12, according to AIHW analysis of the Australian Bureau of Statistics latest National Health Measures Survey (NHMS) (ABS 2013) – the most recently available data on the total number of people affected by CKD in Australia (the ‘prevalence’).
The prevalence of CKD increases rapidly with age, affecting around 44% of people aged 75 and over (AIHW 2018).
Only 6.1% of NHMS respondents who showed biomedical signs of CKD self-reported having the disease, indicating that CKD is a largely under-diagnosed condition (ABS 2013).
