A11y Stats Flashcards
How many people in the world have a disability?
1.4 Billion
What percentage of ‘older people’ have disabilities?
30% – 60%
In countries with life expectancies over 70 years, individual spend on average about how many years living with disabilities?
8 yrs / 11.5% of their life span
What percentage of people 85+ have a disability?
50%
What percentage of persons with disability are employed?
40%
What percentage of people with disabilities in the U.S. live below the poverty line?
30%
What percentage of all people with disabilities globally live in low-income countries?
80%
What percentage of the world’s population, are deaf or HOH?
6%
What percentage of the global population have CAPD?
5%
What is the IQ range for persons with IDD (intellectual developmental disabilities)?
70–75 or lower
What percentage of the global population have an intellectual disability?
1–3%
Of people with reading difficulties what percent have dyslexia?
70–80%
What percentage of the population has ADHD?
11%
What percentage of the global population is deaf-bind?
0.2–2%
What percentage of children have NVLD (Non-Verbal Learning Disorder)?
1%
What percentage of all people with disabilities live in low-income countries?
80%
What percentage of US adults have mobility disabilities?
3.5%
What percentage of adults are obese?
30–40%
What percentage of the global population have anxiety disorders?
2.5–7%
What percent of adults have a seizure at some point in their lives?
2%
What number of flashes per second are most likely to trigger seizures?
16–25
What percentage of people with epilepsy have photosensitive epilepsy?
3%
What is the visual acuity with corrective lenses and field of vision (what can be seen in front of the person) in the eye with the best vision to be considered legally blind?
20/200 visual acuity
How many people globally have vision impairment?
2.2 billion
What is the leading cause of visual impairment globally?
Uncorrected refractive errors and cataracts
What percentage of blind Americans can read brail?
10% or less
What percentage of people with vision impairments live in low income setting?
90%
What is the prevalence of colorblindness among men and also among women of Northern European ancestry?
1 in 12 males
1 in 200 females
What percent of the world’s population have low vision?
3.5%
How may people in the US are legally blind?
1 million
How may people globally are legally blind?
36 million
Which disability, according to WHO reports, has a large percentage of cases that could be prevented with access to health and medical care?
Blindness
For persons 65+ what is the order of prevalent, most to least for the following disabilities?
Ambulatory, Hearing, Cognitive, Vision
23% of people with disabilities age 65 and older in the United States are living with this type of disability:
Ambulatory
