How many deafblind people are there?

Sense commissioned independent, expert research on the numbers of deafblind people now and over the next twenty years.

It is estimated that there are currently 356,000 deafblind people in the UK (572 per 100,000 people).

222,000 of those people are aged over 70 (62%), 113,000 are adults (age 20-69) and 21,000 are children.

Find out more about the research, and how the deafblind population has been significantly underestimated and is set to rise dramatically, in our A Sense of Urgency report.