Chronic kidney disease

Kidney and urinary diseases accounted for 1.4% of Australia's total burden of disease in 2015

An estimated 1 in 10 Australian adults (10%)—about 1.7 million people in 2011–12—had biomedical signs of CKD

1.8 million hospitalisations were associated with CKD in 2016–17—16% of all hospitalisations in Australia

There were 17,000 deaths with CKD listed as an underlying or associated cause of death in 2017