Up to 1 in 4 (27 percent) adults in the United States have some type of disability. Graphic of the United States displaying figures of people with a disability and people with no disability.
Percentage of adults with functional disability types:
12.1 percent of U.S. adults have a mobility disability with serious difficulty walking or climbing stairs.
12.8 percent of U.S. adults have a cognition disability with serious difficulty concentrating, remembering, or making decisions.
7.2 percent of U.S. adults have an independent living disability with difficulty doing errands alone.
6.1 percent of U.S. adults are deaf or have serious difficulty hearing.
4.8 percent of U.S. adults have a vision disability with blindness or serious difficulty seeing even when wearing glasses.
3.6 percent of U.S. adults have a self-care disability with difficulty dressing or bathing.
Disability and Health
Adults with disabilities are more likely to have obesity, smoke, have heart disease, and have diabetes:
41.6 percent of adults with a disability are obese while 29.6 percent of adults without a disability are obese.
21.9 percent of adults with a disability smoke while 10.9 percent of adults without a disability smoke.
9.6 percent of adults with a disability have heart disease while 3.4 percent of adults without a disability have heart disease.
15.9 percent of adults with a disability have diabetes while 7.6 percent of adults without a disability have diabetes.
Disability and Health Care Access
Health care access barriers for working-age adults include
1 in 4 adults with disabilities 18 to 44 years do not have a usual health care provider
1 in 4 adults with disabilities 18 to 44 years have an unmet health care need because of cost in the past year
1 in 5 adults with disabilities 45 to 64 years did not have a routine check-up in the past year
Making a difference
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