Brain Injury Statistics

Each year in the United States, an estimated

• 1.4 million people sustain a traumatic brain injury (TBI) (CDC 2001; Langlois et al 2004)
• 50,000 people die from TBI (Langlois et al 2004)
• 80,000 to 90,000 people experience the onset of long-term or life long disability associated with TBI (Thurman et al 1999)

Among children ages 0 to 14 years, TBI results in an estimated

• 3,000 deaths
• 29,000 hospitalizations, and
• 400,000 emergency department visits (Langlois et al 2001)

At least 5.3 million Americans - 2% of the U.S. population - currently live with disabilities resulting from TBI (Thurman et al 1999)