304000000.58673 people are deaf. partially deaf people are done in a % which accounts for the decimal place number
It looks as if 50,000 people use British Sign Language as their first language or preferred means of communication. There isn't a definitive number of *deaf* people that do so, but we can use the population of the UK and the number of deaf people, in total, in the UK, to estimate. Current population of the UK: 60,776,238 as of July 2007 (estimate only). There are 8,945,000 deaf and hard of hearing people. Dividing that by the current UK population gives us: 15 percent of the population of the UK are deaf or hard of hearing. Now, 50,000 * 15% = 7,500 people in the UK who use British Sign Language as their first language/preferred means of communication are deaf. No Its like 8,998,107
It is estimated that there are around 151,000 BSL users in the UK, with many of them being deaf individuals who use BSL as their first means of communication.
There are about 9 million deaf or hard of hearing people in the UK
8.7 million deaf and hard of hearing people in the UK. The number is rising as the number of people over 60 increases. About 673,000 of these are severely or profoundly deaf; 420,000 of them cannot hear well enough to use a voice telephone
50,000 to 70,000 people use BSL as their first language within the UK.
It is estimated that around 151,000 deaf people in the UK use British Sign Language as their first or preferred means of communication.
Its estimated that bsl is used by some 900,000 across the uk.
Sadly this data is not readily available as its not collated centrally
There are some 900,000 across the Uk. This does not include those who have learned in adults education groups to be communicators with friends and family
About 2% went to university, and a further 13% went to Polytechnic.
There are no specific figures for this. This is because there are users of bsl who are not deaf or without speach and act as communicators or that have learned the language for work based reasons i.e teachers and teaching assistants