Disability and Functioning

• Percent of adults aged 18 and over with difficulty hearing: 14.6%
• Percent of adults aged 18 and over with difficulty seeing: 16.4%

Source: Interactive Summary Health Statistics for Adults: National Health Interview Survey, 2019

• Percent of adults aged 18 and over with difficulty walking or climbing steps: 18.6%

Source: Interactive Summary Health Statistics for Adults: National Health Interview Survey, 2019

• Number of adults aged 18 and over reporting a lot of difficulty or cannot do at all in at least one domain of functioning: 24.8 million (2018)
• Percent of adults aged 18 and over reporting a lot of difficulty or cannot do at all in at least one domain of functioning: 10.2% (2018)
• Number of adults aged 65 and over reporting a lot of difficulty or cannot do at all in at least one domain of functioning: 11.0 million (2018)
• Percent of adults aged 65 and over reporting a lot of difficulty or cannot do at all in at least one domain of functioning: 21.9% (2018)

Source: Health, United States, 2019, table 15 pdf icon[PDF – 9.8 MB]

• National Health Interview Survey
• National Health Interview Survey on Disability
• Disability and Health Data System
• National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities
• National Institutes of Healthexternal icon
• National Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research (NIDILRR)external icon
• Washington Group on Disability Statisticsexternal icon