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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.
Across all age groups, approximately 600,000 people in the United States (0.22% of the population, or 2.2 per 1,000) are deaf; more than half are over 65 years of age.