Disability Statistics for the United States

According to a post on "Disability Bits": More than fifty million Americans have some level of disability. Of these individuals, forty-four percent have a disability that is not considered severe and are able to work year round on a full-time basis. Also, of this total number, 80 percent are individuals who are eighty years of age or older. Additionally, among the total number of fifty-plus million (actual number - 51.2 million) are 1 million individuals who report that they are unable to hear and 1.8 million individuals who report that they are unable to see.

This information was drawn from U.S. census data released by the federal government in august of 2006



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