How many aspies do you think there are in the world?

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27 May 2010, 4:55 pm

I've heard 1 in 165 of people are autistic, but i think it's more than that. I would say 5-10% of people at least have some characteristics.

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27 May 2010, 4:55 pm

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I've heard 1 in 165 of people are autistic, but i think it's more than that. I would say 5-10% of people at least have some characteristics.

Which would mean there are about 300-600 million aspies in the world.

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27 May 2010, 4:57 pm

a lot

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27 May 2010, 4:59 pm

There are lots of us, in the world, and that's a good thing.

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27 May 2010, 5:33 pm

Nine.

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27 May 2010, 5:59 pm

Probably 20.000.000 (assuming that 0.3% of people have AS).

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27 May 2010, 6:02 pm

The latest studies I've looked at are showing between 1 in 100 and 1 in 110 are autistic. Of those, 2/3 are "high functioning" -- either HFA or HF PDD-NOS or AS. Of those, 2/3 have asperger's.

With roughly 6 billion people on the planet, that would make about 400,000,000 people some form of high-functioning autistic and about 266,667,000 with asperger's.

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27 May 2010, 6:05 pm

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Nine.

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27 May 2010, 9:00 pm

enough to start our own country

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27 May 2010, 9:08 pm

I estimate it's somewhere around two million.

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27 May 2010, 9:16 pm

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enough to start our own country

Heck, just in the U.S. (13,887,100), England (2,309,410), and Australia (1,003,830) we've got 17,200,340. That's more people than live in the Netherlands.

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28 May 2010, 8:53 am

Sparrowrose wrote:

that would make about 40,000,000 people some form of high-functioning autistic and about 26,667,000 (or 26,666,667?) with asperger's, I think

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28 May 2010, 9:00 am

Sparrowrose wrote:

ErinWho wrote:

enough to start our own country

Heck, just in the U.S. (13,887,100), England (2,309,410), and Australia (1,003,830) we've got 17,200,340. That's more people than live in the Netherlands.

Where you found these numbers? Are you saying that 4.5% of population in these countries is autistic/asperger? This is MUCH higher than the usual estimates.

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28 May 2010, 10:43 am

Assume 1% of the population, that would be over 600 million aspies. HOWEVER I'm willing to bet that some societies have lower rates of AS and autism than others, so knock 100 million off to make it a round 500 million.

Yep, half a billion aspies.

And we still get treated like *$(@

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28 May 2010, 10:51 am

Sparrowrose wrote:

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Assume 1% of the population, that would be over 600 million aspies.

I still don't understand how you are making these calculations.

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28 May 2010, 11:52 am

Slowly.

World population is closer to 7 billion than 6 billion. Wiki gives us 6.8 billion people.

The usual estimate given is 1% on the autistic spectrum. Let's use that for now and not fuss about the soon-to-be-irrelevant Asperger's label:

6.8 billion = 6,800,000,000 people.

1% of 6.8 billion = 6,800,000,000 people / 100 = 68,000,000 = 68 million people worldwide.

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