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In order to gauge the number of people with hearing loss in the United States, 80,000 members of the National Family Opinion (NFO) panel were surveyed. This survey, which has been funded by a sponsor of BHI since 1989, is published under the name MarkeTrak. The NFO panel is representative of U.S. households.
Most of the 8.7 million deaf and hard of hearing people in the UK have developed a hearing loss with increasing age. Only about 2% of young adults are deaf or hard of hearing. Around the age of 50 the proportion of deaf people begins to increase sharply and 55% of people over 60 are deaf or hard of hearing.