Over 12 million people in the US reported having hearing difficulty in 2022, according to the Census Bureau’s American Community Survey. An additional 1.76 million Americans had a hearing disability that year than in 2010 — a 17% increase, and more than double the rate at which the US population grew over the same period (8%). Between 2010 and 2022, the share of the population with hearing difficulty increased from 3.4% to 3.7%.
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