Objective: To analyze the static data in the incidence of Parkinson’s disease in the world.

Background: Parkinson’s disease is considered a progressive multisystem disorder involving dopaminergic, noradrenergic, serotoninergic and cholinergic systems, characterized by motor and non-motor (autonomic, sleep, sensory and neuropsychiatric) systems. These symptoms may presede motor manifestation. The recognition of these symptoms in the premotor phase of the disease is important to early diagnosis and treatment.

Methods: Statistics and epidemiological analysis of the data.

Results: This is a characteristic age-dependent pathology. So, with a total prevalence of Parkinson’s diseases in the range of 150-300 per 100 thousand. Population incidence increases significantly in older age groups. In the group over 65 years there has been 1700 cases per 100 thousand population (Walters EC, 2007). It is estimated that every tenth patient Parkinson’s diseases begins before 50 years, every twentieth – up to 40 years. In connection with this release a special subgroup – Parkinson’s diseases with early onset at age debut in the range of 21 to 40 years. The term "youthful (juvenile)" Parkinson’s is used when symptoms appear up to 20 years.

Conclusions: PD is the disease of the brain which requires a long-term treat¬ment and the number of its’ patients have ranked third place in the world after di¬abetes. It is very difficult to get the accurate numbers of Parkinson’s diseases dissemination due to unavailability of a single registry as well as the fact that Parkinson’s diseases is often intentionally or mistakenly not diagnosed or passes under the dif¬ferent diagnoses (related and movement disorders), which are not taken into the overall statistics of Parkinson’s diseases.

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