Stats Flashcards
How many people in the world have a disability?
1.4 billion
DQ: Incidence and Prevalence
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What % of older people have disabilities?
30% - 60% estimated.
Older people are more likely to have disabilities.
DQ: Aging Populations
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In countries with life expectancies over 70 years, individuals spend on average about how many years living with disabilities?
8 years
Or 11.5% of their life span
DQ: Aging Populations
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Worldwide, what percentage of persons of age 85+ have a disability?
50%
DQ: Aging Populations
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What % of U.S. persons with a disability are employed.
39.2%
The percentage of non-institutionalized, male or female, with a disability, ages 21-64, all races, regardless of ethnicity, with all education levels in the United States who were employed in 2019.
Source: Disability Statistics (link in DQ site)
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What % of people with disabilities in the U.S. live below the poverty line?
30%
About 30% of people with disabilities live below the poverty line, according to a US Senate report in 2014
Source: DQ Poverty and Disability
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What percent of all people with disabilities live in low-income countries.
80%
The United Nations Development Program estimates that 80 percent of all people with disabilities live in low-income countries.
IAAP Body of Knowledge: 4.2.6 Cognitive Disabilities
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What percent of the world’s population, are deaf or hard of hearing.
6.1%
According to the World Health Organization, an estimated 466 million people, or 6.1 percent of the world’s population, are deaf or hard of hearing.
IAAP BOK: 4.2.2 Auditory Disabilities
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What is the IQ range for persons with IDD?
< 70-75 IQ for Intellectual/Cognitive.
There are significant limitations in two or more adaptive areas (skills that are needed to live, work, and play in the community, such as communication or self-care).
The condition manifests itself before the age of 18
IAAP BOK: 4.2.6. Cognitive Disabilities
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What percent of the global population have an intellectual disability.
1-3%
It is estimated that between 1 - 3% of the global population, or about 200 million people, have an intellectual disability.
IAAP BOK: 4.2.6 Cognitive Disabilities
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What % of the population has dyslexia?
5-10%
It is estimated that between 5-10% of the population has dyslexia, but this number can also be as high as 17% and affects boys and girls in in approximately equal proportions.
IAAP BOK: 4.2.6. Cognitive Disabilities
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What % of people have dyscalculia?
3–6%
IAAP BOK: 4.2.6. Cognitive Disabilities
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What % of the population has ADHD?
11%
ADHD affects approximately 11% of the population.
IAAP BOK: 4.2.6. Cognitive Disabilities
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What % of children in the U.S. have Non Verbal Learning Disorder?
1%
Studies estimate that around 1 percent, of children in the United States may have NVLD. It tends to affect boys and girls about equally.
IAAP BOK: 4.2.6. Cognitive Disabilities
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What percentage of the world’s population is deaf-blind?
Between 0.2% and 2%
The incidence of deaf-blindness is low. According to the World Federation of the Deafblind, between 0.2% and 2% of the world’s population is deaf-blind.
IAAP BOK: 4.2.3. Deaf-blindness
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What percent of all people with disabilities live in low-income countries?
80%
The United Nations Development Program estimates that 80 percent of all people with disabilities live in low-income countries.
IAAP BOK: 4.2.6. Cognitive Disabilities
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What percent of US adults have mobility disabilities?
3.5%
According to the US Centers for Disease Control, 3.5 percent of adults in the US have mobility disabilities.
DQ: Mobility, Flexibility, and Body Structure Disabilities
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What percent of adults are obese?
39 - 40 %
It is currently estimated that between 39 - 40 % of adults are obese.
IAAP BOK: 4.2.5. Mobility, Flexibility, and Body Structure Disabilities
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What % of adults have a seizure at some point in their life?
2%
About 2% of adults have a seizure at some point in their life. Two thirds of these people never have another one. Seizure disorders commonly begin in early childhood or in late adulthood
IAAP BOK: 4.2.7. Seizure Disabilities
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What number of flashes per second are most likely to trigger seizures?
16-25
Different people will be affected by lights at different flash or flicker rates. Lights that flash or flicker between 16 and 25 times a second are the most likely to trigger seizures. But some people are sensitive to rates as low as 3 or as high as 60 a second.
IAAP BOK: 4.2.7. Seizure Disabilities
If flashing content must be used, flashing should not last for more than three (3) seconds
DQ: Challenges & Solutions for People Who Experience Seizures
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What % of people with epilepsy have photosensitive epilepsy.
3%
Approximately 3% of people with epilepsy have photosensitive epilepsy.
IAAP BOK: 4.2.7. Seizure Disabilities
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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
20 degrees
According to the U.S. definition of blindness, a person who has a visual acuity of 20/200 with corrective lenses or who has a field of vision (what can be seen in front of the person) that is 20 degrees in the eye that has the best vision is considered to be legally blind.
DQ Blindness
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How many people globally have vision impairment or blindness?
2.2 billion
2.2 billion people globally have vision impairment or blindness, of whom at least 1 billion have a vision impairment that could have been prevented or has yet to be addressed. The 1 billion people with vision impairment includes those with moderate or severe distance vision impairment or blindness due to unaddressed refractive error, as well as near vision impairment caused by unaddressed presbyopia.
IAAP BOK: 4.2.1. Visual Disabilities
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Globally, what are the leading causes of vision impairment?
Uncorrected refractive errors
Cataracts
Globally, the leading causes of vision impairment are uncorrected refractive errors and cataracts.
IAAP BOK: 4.2.1. Visual Disabilities
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