Number of working age blind who are unemployed: 74% (AFB Sept./Oct. JVIB Kirchner & Schneidler, 1997) - Cost of blindness: Estimated annual costs of blindness to the federal government: $4 billion (Prevent Blindness America, 1994) - Cost of a lifetime of support and unpaid taxes for one blind person: $916,000 (Figured using SSI & SSDI average payments and unpaid tax estimates) - Total Population of the United States: About 262 [...]
( provided by nfb.org ) - Number of blind persons in this country: 1.1 million (AFB Sept./Oct. JVIB & Chiang, et al., 1992, Milbank Quarterly) - Number of blind school age children: 57,425 (APH, Federal Quota Census of January 1998) - Number of blind seniors, 65 and over (3.5% of the population 65 and over): 787,691 (Chiang, et al., 1992) - Projected number of seniors who will be blind: Year [...]
Worldwide -285 million people are visually impaired -Of the 285 million, 39 million are blind and 246 million have low vision -1.4 million children under the age of 15 are blind -More than 90% of the world’s visually impaired people live in low income countries -Cataract is the leading cause of blindness -Age-related causes of visual impairment and blindness are increasing, as is blindness due to uncontrolled diabetes Every 5 [...]
The first global estimate on the magnitude and causes of visual impairment was based on the 1990 world population data (38 million blind). This estimate was later extrapolated to the 1996 world population (45 million blind), and to the projected 2020 world population (76 million), indicating a twofold increase in the magnitude of visual impairment in the world by 2020. It provided the basis for the 1999 launch of VISION [...]
Since the estimates of the 1990s, new data based on the 2002 global population show a reduction in the number of people who are blind or visually impaired, and those who are blind from the effects of infectious diseases, but an increase in the number of people who are blind from conditions related to longer life spans. This new information underscores the need to modify the health care agenda to [...]
Global estimate of the number of people visually impaired. The magnitude of visual impairment and blindness and their causes have been estimated, globally and by WHO region from recent data. For countries without data estimates were based on newly developed model. Globally the number of people of all ages visually impaired is estimated to be 285 million, of whom 39 million are blind. People 50 years and older are 82% [...]