A11y Stats

Question 1

How many people in the world have a disability?

Answer 1

1.4 Billion

Question 2

What percentage of ‘older people’ have disabilities?

Answer 2

30% – 60%

Question 3

In countries with life expectancies over 70 years, individual spend on average about how many years living with disabilities?

Answer 3

8 yrs / 11.5% of their life span

Question 4

What percentage of people 85+ have a disability?

Answer 4

50%

Question 5

What percentage of persons with disability are employed?

Answer 5

40%

Question 6

What percentage of people with disabilities in the U.S. live below the poverty line?

Answer 6

30%

Question 7

What percentage of all people with disabilities globally live in low-income countries?

Answer 7

80%

Question 8

What percentage of the world’s population, are deaf or HOH?

Answer 8

6%

Question 9

What percentage of the global population have CAPD?

Answer 9

5%

Question 10

What is the IQ range for persons with IDD (intellectual developmental disabilities)?

Answer 10

70–75 or lower

Question 11

What percentage of the global population have an intellectual disability?

Answer 11

1–3%

Question 12

Of people with reading difficulties what percent have dyslexia?

Answer 12

70–80%

Question 13

What percentage of the population has ADHD?

Answer 13

11%

Question 14

What percentage of the global population is deaf-bind?

Answer 14

0.2–2%

Question 15

What percentage of children have NVLD (Non-Verbal Learning Disorder)?

Answer 15

1%

Question 16

What percentage of all people with disabilities live in low-income countries?

Answer 16

80%

Question 17

What percentage of US adults have mobility disabilities?

Answer 17

3.5%

Question 18

What percentage of adults are obese?

Answer 18

30–40%

Question 19

What percentage of the global population have anxiety disorders?

Answer 19

2.5–7%

Question 20

What percent of adults have a seizure at some point in their lives?

Answer 20

2%

Question 21

What number of flashes per second are most likely to trigger seizures?

Answer 21

16–25

Question 22

What percentage of people with epilepsy have photosensitive epilepsy?

Answer 22

3%

Question 23

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?

Answer 23

20/200 visual acuity

Question 24

How many people globally have vision impairment?

Answer 24

2.2 billion

Question 25

What is the leading cause of visual impairment globally?

Answer 25

Uncorrected refractive errors and cataracts

Question 26

What percentage of blind Americans can read brail?

Answer 26

10% or less

Question 27

What percentage of people with vision impairments live in low income setting?

Answer 27

90%

Question 28

What is the prevalence of colorblindness among men and also among women of Northern European ancestry?

Answer 28

1 in 12 males
1 in 200 females

Question 29

What percent of the world’s population have low vision?

Answer 29

3.5%

Question 30

How may people in the US are legally blind?

Answer 30

1 million

Question 31

How may people globally are legally blind?

Answer 31

36 million

Question 32

Which disability, according to WHO reports, has a large percentage of cases that could be prevented with access to health and medical care?

Answer 32

Blindness

Question 33

For persons 65+ what is the order of prevalent, most to least for the following disabilities?

Answer 33

Ambulatory, Hearing, Cognitive, Vision

Question 34

23% of people with disabilities age 65 and older in the United States are living with this type of disability:

Answer 34

Ambulatory