Why important for Education?
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The inability of hearing
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Over 5% of the world’s population – or 430 million people – require rehabilitation to address their ‘disabling’ hearing loss (432 million adults and 34 million children).
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The inability to see certain colors
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1 in 12 men (8%) and 1 in 200 women are colorblind (approximately 4.5% of the world population)
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More than 350 million colorblind people in the world
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792 million, which is 10.7% of the global population and 9.3% males and 11.9% females has the mental illness but over 70% of them do not get proper treatment
Reference
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Kosari A. Colorblind People Population! Statistics. COLORBLIND GUIDE. Published June 13, 2021. https://www.colorblindguide.com/post/colorblind-people-population-live-counter
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World Health Organization. Deafness and Hearing Loss. WHO. Published April 1, 2021. https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/deafness-and-hearing-loss
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Ritchie H, Roser M, Dattani S. Mental health. Our World in Data. Published April 2018. https://ourworldindata.org/mental-health