World Stroke Organization: Global Stroke Fact Sheet 2025

Title (eng)
World Stroke Organization: Global Stroke Fact Sheet 2025
Author
Valery L Feigin
Author
Michael Brainin
Author
Bo Norrving
Author
Sheila O Martins
Author
Jeyaraj Pandian
Author
Patrice Lindsay
Author
Maria F Grupper
World Stroke Organization, Geneva, Switzerland
Author
Ilari Rautalin
Description (eng)
Abstract Background: Among non-communicable disorders (NCDs), stroke remains the second leading cause of death and the third leading cause of death and disability combined (as expressed by disability-adjusted life-years lost—DALYs) in the world. Aims: The study was aimed to estimate global, regional and nationa burden of stroke and its risk factors from 1990 to 2021. Methods: Finding presented in this paper were derived mainly from the Global Burden of Disease 2021 Study on stroke burden published in The Lancet Neurology 2024:23:973-1003. Results: The estimated global cost of stroke is over US$890 billion (0.66% of the global GDP). From 1990 to 2021, the burden (in terms of the absolute number of cases) increased substantially (70.0% increase in incident strokes, 44.0% deaths from stroke, 86.0% prevalent strokes, and 32% DALYs), with the bulk of the global stroke burden (87.0% of deaths and 89.0% of DALYs) residing in lower-income and lower-middle-income countries (LMICs). Stroke attributable to metabolic risks constituted 69.0% of all strokes, environmental risks constituted 37.0%, and behavioral risks constituted 35.0%. Conclusion: This World Stroke Organization (WSO) Global Stroke Fact Sheet 2025 provides the most updated information that can be used to inform communication with all internal and external stakeholders; all statistics have been reviewed and approved for use by the WSO Executive Committee and leaders from the Global Burden of Disease research group.
Keywords (eng)
Strokeransient ischemic attackstatisticsincidenceprevalencemortality
Type (eng)
journal article
Language
[eng]
Persistent identifier
https://door.donau-uni.ac.at/o:6045
DOI
10.1177/17474930241308142
Is in series
Title (deu)
International Journal of Stroke
Volume
20
Issue
2
ISSN
1747-4930
Issued
2025
From page
132
To page
144
Publication
SAGE Publications , 2025
Date issued
2025
License
CC BY-NC 4.0 International