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The estimated prevalence of autism is 11.8 per 10,000 people while the estimated prevalence of autism spectrum conditions is 26.6 per 10,000 people. In Japan, recent estimates of autism spectrum are as high as 13 per 10,000 people. This suggests that autism is more common in Asia than previously thought.
The epidemiology of autism is the study of the incidence and distribution of autism spectrum disorders (ASD). A 2022 systematic review of global prevalence of autism spectrum disorders found a median prevalence of 1% in children in studies published from 2012 to 2021, with a trend of increasing prevalence over time.
Since the end of the 2000s a number of countries have launched plans to hire autistic people, not for medico-social reasons, but out of interest in their skills in specific tasks. [39] [40] The business model of structures specializing in the recruitment of autistic adults is based on the valorization of these skills enabled by neuroatypia. [40]
[5] Furthermore, according to the UK Office for National Statistics, the unemployment rate of autistic people may reach 85%, the highest rate among all disabled groups studied. It is noted that in many countries autism is not a disability protected by anti-discrimination employment laws, and this is due to many corporations lobbying against it. [6]
Most recently, the Washington, D.C.-based family went to New York City to celebrate the 30th birthday of their son Zak, who has autism. The family met up with their younger son, who lives in ...
Among young autistic adults, only 58% are employed and of that group, most work part time in low-wage jobs. To make matters worse, it is still legal to pay disabled employees less than minimum wage .
More than 1 billion persons in the world have some form of disability. This corresponds to about 15% of the world's population. Between 110 and 190 million people have very significant difficulties in functioning. People with disabilities are more likely to be unemployed than non-disabled people.
It seems that this negative shift in the meaning of the word "autistic" has accompanied the more frequent representation of autism in the public sphere [175] It was reported in 2006 by Danièle Langloys (president of Autisme France), for whom "France [...] is the only country in the world to find it normal for someone to be autistic to be ...