Welcome to the:
‘Hear For Health’
Advice Bureau:
“For All Of Your Hearing Needs”
which includes:
The UK Statistics About Deafness
Deaf And Hard Of Hearing Adults In The UK
These are the latest (2010) estimated figures for the number of deaf and hard of hearing adults in the UK.
There are:
- 8,945,000 deaf and hard of hearing people
- 2,474,000 deaf and hard of hearing people aged 16 to 60
- 6,471,000 deaf and hard of hearing people aged over 60
- 8,257,000 people with mild to moderate deafness
- 2,366,000 people with mild to moderate deafness aged 16 to 60
- 5,891,000 people with mild to moderate deafness aged over 60
- 688,000 people with severe to profound deafness
- 108,000 people with severe to profound deafness aged 16 to 60
- 580,000 people with severe to profound deafness aged over 60
Age-Related Hearing Loss
These are the percentages of those over the age of 50 and over the age of 70 who have various degress of hearing loss.
In the UK:
- 71.1% of over 70-year-olds will have some kind of hearing loss
- 26.7% of over 70-year-olds will have mild hearing loss
- 36.8% of over 70-year-olds will have moderate hearing loss
- 6.3% of over 70-year-olds will have severe hearing loss
- 1.3% of over 70-year-olds will have profound hearing loss
- 41.7% of over 50-year-olds will have some kind of hearing loss
- 21.6% of over 50-year-olds will have mild hearing loss
- 16.8% of over 50-year-olds will have moderate hearing loss
- 2.7% of over 50-year-olds will have severe hearing loss
- 0.6% of over 50-year-olds will have profound hearing loss.
Babies And Children
These are the most important statistics relating to deaf and hard of hearing children in the UK:
- 840 babies are born each year in UK with significant deafness
- One in 1,000 children are deaf at three years old
- There are 20,000 children aged 0 to 15 years old who are moderately to profoundly deaf
- There are 12,000 children aged 0 to 15 years old who were born deaf
Deafblind People
The Picure Below Is Of Helen Keller
There are 23,000 deafblind people in the UK.
Communication
Here are some statistics about the use of Sign Language and the number of interpreters in the UK:
- There are an estimated 50,000 people who use British Sign Language as their first or preferred language
- The ratio of interpreters (including trainees) to sign language users is 1 to 156
- The ratio of fully-qualified interpreters to sign language users is 1 to 275
Hearing Aids
How many people use hearing aids?
There are:
- two million people with hearing aids
- 1.4 million people who use them regularly
- four million people who it is thought could benefit from a hearing aid
Hearing Dogs
There are 921 hearing dogs that have been trained by Hearing Dogs for Deaf People.
“A Hearing Dog Can Offer Increased Independence,
Greater Confidence,
Companionship And A Feeling Of Security”
Tinnitus
In the UK there are:
- 230,000 adults with tinnitus to a degree that has a severe effect on their ability to lead a normal life
- 470,000 adults with tinnitus that has a severe effect on their quality of life
- 2.3 million adults with tinnitus that makes it difficult for them to sleep
- 2.3 million adults with tinnitus that they find severely-moderately annoying
- 4.7 million adults who have experienced tinnitus for longer than five minutes (this does not include those who have had tinnitus for a short time after exposure to loud noise)
So there you have it, those are the facts of hearing loss and deafness in the UK and if you happen to fit into any of the above criteria, if you’re not already getting assistance, please do so…
…and if you are, well done to you.
*Source: The Royal National Institute for Deaf People
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