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The prevalence of conditions that make typing or handwriting hard dataset draws on 10 distinct sources.
Calculated from 22 data points on October 19, 2026
- How it is calculated
- Count of the distinct sources behind the dataset's 22 rows: 10.
A statistic of the dataset Disability Statistics: Conditions That Make Typing Hard, calculated by code from its published rows.
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- The American Speech-Language-Hearing Association estimates that dysarthria affects 44 to 88 percent of people with Parkinson's disease.
- Over 61 million US adults, or 1 in 4, report having a disability, according to CDC data.
- Disability is more common with age: approximately 2 in 5 US adults aged 65 and older have a disability, according to the CDC report.
- About 1 in 17 US adults reports a hearing disability, according to the CDC's breakdown of disability types.
- About 1 in 21 US adults reports a vision disability, according to the CDC's breakdown of disability types.
- Age-standardized arthritis prevalence among US adults was lower among men, at 16.3 percent, than among women, at 20.9 percent, in 2019 to 2021.
- Age-standardized arthritis prevalence among US adults was higher among women, at 20.9 percent, than among men, at 16.3 percent, in 2019 to 2021.
- In the 2010 Survey of Income and Program Participation, 2.8 percent of US people aged 15 and older, about 6.7 million people, reported difficulty grasping objects like a glass or pencil.
- In the 2010 Survey of Income and Program Participation, 7.1 percent of US people aged 15 and older, about 17.2 million people, reported difficulty lifting a 10-pound object like a bag of groceries.
- In the 2010 Survey of Income and Program Participation, 8.2 percent of US people aged 15 and older, about 19.9 million people, had difficulty with physical tasks for the upper body, including lifting and grasping.
- In the 2010 Survey of Income and Program Participation, 23.8 percent of the US population aged 65 and older reported difficulty with lifting or grasping.
- In 2024, 23.9 percent of people aged 16 years or over in the EU reported some or severe long-standing limitations in their usual activities due to health problems, which Eurostat calls a disability.
- In 2019-20, about 11 percent of US postbaccalaureate students reported having a disability.
- In 2019-20, about 21 percent of US undergraduates reported having a disability.
- During 2019 to 2021, 21.2% of U.S. adults, about 53.2 million people, reported having been diagnosed with arthritis.
- In a 2021 meta-analysis of general-population X-ray studies, 5.8 percent of 50-year-old men had radiographic thumb base osteoarthritis.
- In the same meta-analysis, 33.1 percent of 80-year-old men had radiographic thumb base osteoarthritis.
- In the same meta-analysis, 7.3 percent of 50-year-old women had radiographic thumb base osteoarthritis.
- In the same meta-analysis, 39.0 percent of 80-year-old women had radiographic thumb base osteoarthritis.
- WHO projects that nearly 2.5 billion people worldwide, or 1 in 4, will have some degree of hearing loss by 2050.
- Over 5 percent of the world's population, or 430 million people, need rehabilitation for disabling hearing loss, including 34 million children.
- A 2022 meta-analysis put the pooled worldwide prevalence of developmental dyslexia among primary school children at 7.10 percent, with a higher rate in boys (9.22 percent) than in girls (4.66 percent).