The data displays the percentage of adults in the U.S. with a lot of trouble hearing or deafness from 1997 to 2015, by gender. In 2015, some 2.6% of male adults in the U.S. had such problems.
1997 | 4.2 | 2.4 |
1998 | 4.3 | 2.2 |
1999 | 4.5 | 2.1 |
2000 | 4.3 | 2.3 |
2001 | 5.1 | 2.3 |
2002 | 4.2 | 2.4 |
2003 | 4 | 2.3 |
2004 | 4.1 | 2.4 |
2005 | 4.8 | 2.5 |
2006 | 4.3 | 2.6 |
2007 | 3.1 | 1.6 |
2008 | 2.5 | 1.4 |
2009 | 2.5 | 1.6 |
2010 | 2.8 | 1.6 |
2011 | 2.7 | 1.7 |
2012 | 2.6 | 1.5 |
2013 | 2.5 | 1.6 |
2014 | 2.9 | 1.7 |
2015 | 2.6 | 1.5 |