An estimated 1.3 million Canadians are living with an acquired brain injury
Over 160,000 Canadians sustain a brain injury each year, which is roughly 465 people daily, or one person injured every 3 minutes
The highest incidence of traumatic brain injury are men aged 16-24. Men experience brain injury twice as often as women.
Every year in Canada, over 11,000 people die as a result of a Traumatic Brain Injury
Each year over 6,000 become permanently disabled after a traumatic brain injury
Acquired brain injury is the leading cause of death and disability for Canadians under the age 35
1 in 10 people will know someone who will suffer a brain injury this year
About 3,000 of these will be left with physical cognitive and/or behavioural consequences severe enough to prevent them from returning to pre-injury lifestyles
4% of the population lives with brain injury when factoring in those injuries due to stroke or other non-traumatic causes
Nearly 30% of Canadians with brain injury are not the victim of a traumatic event but rather incur their injury through other means such as an aneurysm, meningitis, complications from surgery or anoxia
Moderate or severe TBI increases the risk for dementia two to four-fold
