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Disability Facts and Figures

Millions of people in the United States and Canada live with vision loss, hearing loss or another disability, and the numbers grow as the population ages.

Here is what the latest government data shows, and what it means for how you share information with your customers.

United States

  • More than 70 million U.S. adults, more than 1 in 4, reported having a disability in 2022. (CDC)
  • About 7 million people in the United States have vision impairment, including 1 million who are blind. (CDC)
  • About 15% of American adults, or 37.5 million people, report some trouble hearing. (NIDCD)

Canada

  • In 2022, 27% of Canadians aged 15 and over, or 8.0 million people, had at least one disability. (Statistics Canada)
  • Disability becomes more common with age: 40.4% of Canadians aged 65 and over had a disability in 2022. (Statistics Canada)
  • Almost 2.2 million Canadians aged 15 and over (7.4%) had a seeing disability in 2022. (Statistics Canada)
  • Over 1.6 million Canadians aged 15 and over (5.6%) had a hearing disability in 2022, and 81% of them experienced barriers to accessibility. (Statistics Canada)
  • 36% of employed Canadians with a seeing disability (aged 25 to 64) needed at least one workplace accommodation. (Statistics Canada)

What this means for your business

People with disabilities are customers, employees and decision-makers. As the population ages, more of your customers will find standard print hard to read or video hard to hear.

Offering your information in braille, large print, audio and captioned formats lets these customers read, hear and act on it independently, and shows them your business is ready to serve them.

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