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Statistical
Facts
about
Blindness
3,847,100 or 1.9%
The number of male or female, ages 16 through 64, all races, with all
education levels in the United States reported to have a visual disability
in 2015.
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1,110,800 or 30.6%
The number of male or female, ages 21 through 64, all races, with all education
levels in the United States reported to have a visual disability in 2015. These
numbers refer to the highest level of education attained by a given individual.
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1,526,100
The number of male or female, ages 21 through 64, all races, with all education
levels in the United States reported to have a visual disability in 2015, who were
employed.
These estimates (for adults age 16 and older reporting
significant vision loss, who were in the non-institutionalized,
civilian population) are all derived from the American
Community Survey results for 2015.
There is no exact statistics about the number of blind people in Russia at all.
Lydia Abramtseva, the vice-president of All-Russian Society of the Blind
(VOS), says there are 270,000 members in VOS. In total, according
to unofficial statistics, there are about 1,000,000 blind people in Russia.