Statistics & Costs
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Statistics
Approximately 1 in every 10 individual
s is touched by brain injury.
1.4 million Americans sustain a traumatic brain injury every year.
Each year, 80,000 Americans experience the onset of long-term disability following traumatic brain injury.
An estimated 5.3 million Americans - a little more than 2% of the U.S. population - currently live with disabilities resulting from traumatic brain injury.
Every 23 seconds, an infant, child, teenager or adult sustains a traumatic brain injury (in the U.S.).
The risk of TBI is highest among adolescents, young adults and those older than 75 years.
After one brain injury, the risk for a second injury is three times greater; after the second injury, the risk for a third injury is eight times greater.
Costs of Brain Injury
The cost of brain injury in the United States is estimated to be $60 billion annually. This figure includes direct medical costs and indirect costs such as lost productivity.
Brain injury accounts for more years of lost productivity than any other injury.
