•         9 million deaf and hard of hearing people in the UK

•         8.3 million hard of hearing

•         123,000 deafened people

•         50,000 British Sign Language users (BSL)

•         24,000 deaf/blind people

•         25,000 deaf children (0-15)

•         16,000 "Prelingually" Deaf (this means that they were either born deaf or lost their hearing before the development of language skills)

All figures are rounded.