If you see a lower ADHD rate in an older Central Asia age group, that does not establish disappearance — the chart reports an age comparison for 2023, not why each band has its value

You arrived looking for the ADHD figures by age in Central Asia, and the clearest answer is an age pattern: the recorded prevalence and disease-burden rates peak in childhood, then decline across the listed age groups.

The Global Burden of Disease 2023 results report both sexes together for Central Asia. They give separate measures for people living with ADHD, new cases, and total disease burden.

One question still matters for reading the chart correctly: does a lower rate in older groups mean ADHD disappears with age?

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What the 2023 Central Asia ADHD figures measure

The reader looking at the age chart needs to separate three different measures before reading the pattern.

Prevalence counts people living with ADHD during 2023. The Central Asia results give both a number of people and a rate per 100,000 for each listed age band.

Incidence records new cases per year. The reported incidence figures cover ages 2-4, 5-9, and 10-14, so they answer a narrower question.

DALYs show total disease burden in the dataset. Those figures appear across ages 2-4 through 60-64 and use both sexes together.

These measures should stay in their own lanes. A prevalence rate describes people living with ADHD; an incidence rate describes new cases per year.

The chart therefore supports an age comparison for Central Asia in 2023. It does not explain why each age band has its recorded value.

Keep that boundary in view as you read the 7 age findings below. Each one describes a reported measure rather than a personal diagnosis.

ADHD prevalence is highest in the listed childhood groups

The reader starting with childhood sees the highest recorded prevalence rate at ages 10-14.

That group has a prevalence rate of 1,434 per 100,000, or about 1.4%. The number of people living with ADHD in that band reaches about 131,000.

Ages 5-9 show a prevalence rate of 1,063 per 100,000, or about 1.1%. The corresponding number of people living with ADHD sits at about 107,000.

The ages 2-4 group has a lower recorded prevalence rate of 166 per 100,000, or about 0.2%.

Its reported number of people living with ADHD is about 10,000.

That sequence rises across the three childhood bands shown in the prevalence results. It reaches its highest listed rate at ages 10-14.

Age bands group people together. They cannot show how one person’s symptoms or diagnosis changed between birthdays.

For the reader comparing a child’s age with the chart, the useful point is the position of the band.

Ages 10-14 carry the highest childhood prevalence rate in these results.

Pick the age band that matches the person you are considering and compare the reported rate with the number living with ADHD.

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The prevalence rate declines after ages 10-14

The reader who follows the chart past adolescence sees the recorded prevalence rate fall in every later age band shown.

Ages 15-19 have a prevalence rate of 1,153 per 100,000, or about 1.2%. Ages 20-24 fall to 840 per 100,000, or about 0.8%.

The decline continues through ages 25-29, at 637 per 100,000, or about 0.6%. Ages 30-34 reach 505 per 100,000, or about 0.5%.

From there, the reported rates move down to 407 per 100,000 at ages 35-39 and 329 per 100,000 at ages 40-44.

The later groups show 261 per 100,000 at ages 45-49, 199 per 100,000 at ages 50-54, and 134 per 100,000 at ages 55-59.

At ages 60-64, the recorded prevalence rate reaches 77.4 per 100,000, or under 0.1%.

This is a pattern across grouped population estimates. It does not establish that ADHD ends at a particular age.

For someone reading the older-age figures, the strongest supported statement is narrower: the reported Central Asia prevalence rate is lower in each later age band than in the preceding listed band.

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The number of people living with ADHD also gets smaller

The reader may notice that the count and the rate move in the same direction after the childhood peak.

About 87,000 people aged 15-19 were reported as living with ADHD.

The figure falls to about 57,000 for ages 20-24 and about 47,000 for ages 25-29.

The next age bands record about 41,000 people at ages 30-34 and about 31,000 at ages 35-39.

About 21,000 people aged 40-44 were reported as living with ADHD. The count reaches about 14,000 at ages 45-49.

The 50-54 group records about 9,900 people. The 55-59 group records about 6,200, while ages 60-64 record about 3,400.

The youngest groups show about 10,000 people at ages 2-4, about 107,000 at ages 5-9, and about 131,000 at ages 10-14.

Counts describe the estimated number of people in each age band. Rates help compare groups with different population sizes.

Read together, the two prevalence measures point to the same broad result. The listed count rises through childhood, peaks at ages 10-14, and then declines through ages 60-64.

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New-case figures stop at ages 10-14

The reader checking new cases faces a different chart boundary from the prevalence chart.

For ages 2-4, the reported annual incidence rate is 160 per 100,000, with about 9,900 new cases per year.

Ages 5-9 show an annual incidence rate of 203 per 100,000, with about 20,000 new cases per year.

At ages 10-14, the annual incidence rate is 18 per 100,000, with about 1,600 new cases per year.

The incidence results therefore show two higher childhood rates before a much lower rate at ages 10-14.

New cases per year and people living with ADHD are different measures. A lower annual incidence figure does not directly provide a reason for the prevalence pattern.

The reported incidence age bands stop at 10-14.

No later-age incidence result appears in this set, so the prevalence trend should not be presented as a new-case trend in adulthood.

That distinction answers a common reading error. The older-age figures show prevalence, while the available new-case figures cover only the three youngest age groups.

Compare the three reported incidence age bands to see how the new-case measure differs from the longer prevalence series.

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DALYs follow a steady downward age pattern

The reader who switches from prevalence to disease burden sees the same broad direction after childhood.

The DALY rate reaches 62.6 per 100,000 at ages 10-14.

It then falls to 50.1 per 100,000 at ages 15-19 and 36.5 per 100,000 at ages 20-24.

Ages 25-29 record 27.5 per 100,000.

The rate reaches 21.7 per 100,000 at ages 30-34 and 17.4 per 100,000 at ages 35-39.

Later groups show 14 per 100,000 at ages 40-44, 11.1 per 100,000 at ages 45-49, and 8.38 per 100,000 at ages 50-54.

The rate drops to 5.52 per 100,000 at ages 55-59 and 3.17 per 100,000 at ages 60-64.

The reported DALY number follows the same age direction.

It reaches about 5,700 at ages 10-14, then declines to about 3,800, about 2,500, and about 2,000 across ages 15-19, 20-24, and 25-29.

Later DALY counts move through about 1,800, about 1,300, about 897, about 614, about 416, about 256, and about 137 across the listed age bands from 30-34 to 60-64.

DALYs are a burden measure in this dataset. They should not be treated as a direct report of one reader’s daily experience.

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ADHD and co-occurring conditions in children

The reader asking what the age pattern means for children also needs the separate evidence on co-occurring conditions.

A 2022 US National Survey of Children’s Health found that 77.9% of children aged 3-17 with current ADHD had at least one co-occurring mental, behavioral, or developmental disorder.

A separate 2025 systematic review and meta-analysis combined 121 studies with about 39,894 children and adolescents with ADHD.

That review found oppositional defiant disorder in 34.7%, other behavior disorders in 30.7%, anxiety disorders in 18.4%, and conduct disorder in 10.7%.

These findings answer a different question from the Central Asia age chart.

They describe co-occurring conditions in children and adolescents, while the GBD results describe age-specific ADHD measures in Central Asia.

The reader should therefore avoid treating the percentages as age-specific Central Asia estimates. Their sources, populations, and questions differ.

The direct answer to the co-occurrence question is clear.

The reviewed child and adolescent studies recorded several conditions alongside ADHD, with oppositional defiant disorder the most common category in that review.

That result describes group evidence. It does not identify which condition a particular person has.

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How to read the Central Asia age pattern

The reader who wants one plain-language answer can hold three points together.

First, prevalence peaks in the listed childhood groups at ages 10-14, where the rate reaches 1,434 per 100,000, or about 1.4%.

Second, the prevalence rate declines through each later age band shown, reaching under 0.1% at ages 60-64.

Third, the available incidence series covers ages 2-4, 5-9, and 10-14 only.

Its highest reported annual incidence rate appears at ages 5-9, at 203 per 100,000.

The DALY results add a matching burden pattern. Their rate is highest at ages 10-14 and declines across the later age groups.

Several explanations could exist for an age pattern in population data, but these figures alone do not test those explanations.

They also cannot show whether a lower older-age estimate reflects changes in symptoms, diagnosis, recording, survival, population structure, or another factor. Those questions require evidence beyond the reported values.

For this reader, the evidence-based conclusion stays focused: in Central Asia in 2023, the recorded ADHD prevalence and DALY burden rates were highest in childhood and lower across later listed age groups.

The age chart gives a population picture. It does not settle an individual person’s diagnosis, history, or future.

That is the useful answer to the original search.

The numbers show where ADHD measures sit by age in the dataset, and they show why prevalence, incidence, and DALYs must be read separately.

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