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Co-authored-by: Amit Moryossef <[email protected]>
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TimothyRbz and AmitMY authored Jan 13, 2025
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Among those with disabling hearing loss, the **World Federation of the Deaf (WFD)** estimates there are approximately **70 million deaf people worldwide**.
This community spans over **200 sign languages** (or over _300_[^un-national-day]), underlining the linguistic diversity of deaf populations.
From our research, it is unclear how many people use sign languages.

[^wfd]: World Federation of the Deaf. 2024. [Our Work](https://wfdeaf.org/our-work/).
[^un-national-day]: United Nations. 2024. [International Day of Sign Languages](https://www.un.org/en/observances/sign-languages-day).

From our research, it is unclear how many people use sign languages.
The European Centre for Modern Languages[^ecml] estimates that on average,
deaf sign language users make up about 0.16% of the whole population in any given country, amounting to 12 million people worldwide.
According to Ethnologue (via Derivation[^derivation]), there are 24 million native sign language users worldwide,
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