Hearing difficulties with hearing aid older adults by ethnicity U.S. 2019

In the United States, around 6.3 percent of Hispanic adults aged 65 years or older still experienced a lot of difficulty hearing or could not hear despite the use of a hearing aid in 2019. This statistic shows the percentage of adults aged 65 years and older with difficulty hearing even when using a hearing aid in the U.S. in 2019, by ethnicity.

Percentage of adults aged 65 years and older with difficulty hearing even when using a hearing aid in the U.S. in 2019, by ethnicity

Characteristic	Non-Hispanic white	Non-Hispanic black	Hispanic	Non-Hispanic Asian
Some difficulty	29.4%	19%	16.6%	16.2%
A lot of difficulty or cannot hear	4%	1.9%	6.3%	3.6%

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Release date

July 2021

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United States

Survey time period

2019

Age group

65 years and older

Supplementary notes

Hearing limitation is based on responses to the survey question, “Do you use a hearing aid?”

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