Prevalence of severe-to-Profound hearing loss in the adult Swedish population and comparison with cochlear implantation rate

Figures & data

Figure 1. Female, male, and total number of patients with severe-to-profound hearing loss divided into 10-year age bands.

Figure 2. Prevalence of severe-to-profound hearing loss among females and males and total divided into 10-year age bands.

Table 1. Prevalence of severe-to-profound hearing loss for women, men, and total in Sweden.

	Women	Men	Total
Adult inhabitants, n (%)	4,044,569 (50%)	4,049,085 (50%)	8,093,654 (100%)
Adult patients with STPHL, n (%)	11,023 (49%)	11,275 (51%)	22,298 (100%)
Prevalence, %	0.27%	0.28%	0.28%

STPHL: Severe-to-profound hearing loss.

Figure 3. Prevalence of severe-to-profound hearing loss versus average cochlear implantation rate from 2015 to 2019 in all Swedish regions. Kendall’s tau-b = .16, p = .31. STPHL, severe-to-profound hearing loss.