Somewhere in the news today a Mr. Rose, student affairs official, stated that SUNY B has over 2000 students with a disability. Kind of hard to fathom.
It does seem there are lots of folks that are "disabled".
Overall, there are about 42.5 million Americans with disabilities (850,000 per state), making up 13% of the civilian noninstitutionalized population, according to U.S. Census Bureau data from 2021.
In December 2021, there were 9,243,999 people receiving Social Security disability benefits as disabled workers, disabled widow(er)s, or disabled adult children.