Dementia is a major public health issue worldwide and chronic use of benzodiazepine, which is very frequent in northern countries, was found to be a risk factor of dementia. this work aims at evaluating the impact of a reduction in chronic use of benzodiazepine on the future burden of dementia in france. Using estimations of dementia incidence and of benzodiazepine use and nationwide projections of mortality and population sizes, a Monte carlo approach based on an illness-death model provided projections of several indicators of dementia burden. With no change in benzodiazepine consumption, the prevalence of dementia between age 65 and 99 in France in 2040 was estimated at 2.16 millions (95% confidence interval (CI) 1.93-2.38), with a life expectancy without dementia at 65 years equal to 25.0 years (24.7-25.3) for women and 23.8 years (23.5-24.2) for men. Assuming a disappearance of chronic use of benzodiazepine in 2020, the prevalence would be reduced by about 6.6% in 2040 and the life expectancy without dementia would increase by 0.99 (0.93-1.06) year among women and 0.56 (0.50-0.62) among men. To conclude, a modest but significant reduction in future dementia burden could be obtained by applying current recommendation for duration of benzodiazepine use. Dementia, whose Alzheimer's disease is the main cause, is a very frequent disease in older adults throughout the world. Age being the main known risk factor of dementia, the number of cases is expected to increase in the future due to the aging of the population 1. As dementia progressively leads to complete loss of autonomy requiring a permanent support, this disease represents a tremendous social and economic cost for our societies 2. Apart from genetic and socio-demographic factors such as gender and educational level, some modifiable factors such as vascular risk factors 3 or drugs consumption 4 are suspected to be associated with the risk of dementia. Among them, several studies have shown a higher risk of dementia among benzodiazepine (BZD) users 5-13. While conflicting results were recently published 14,15 , these findings were confirmed in several meta-analyses 16-18 and Billioti et al. 19 demonstrated the plausibility of a causal relationship. BZD are mainly used as anxiolytic and hypnotic with a recommended duration of treatment of less than 4 weeks in many countries. In France, although the maximum recommended duration of prescription is 4 weeks as hypnotic and 12 weeks as anxiolytics, the duration of use exceeds 3 months for more than 50% of patients. Chronic use of BZD is a major public health concern in most developped countries 20-22 , especially in the older adults who are more likely to have side effects 23 owing to polymedication and physiological changes with aging. Recommendations against chronic use of BZD are regularly published without any clear impact on the consumption, while applying the current recommendations could dramatically reduce this use. Quantifying the possible impact of such a reduction on the future burden of dementia could...