This statistic is based on a survey by Ipsos MORI and shows the percentage of respondents in select countries worldwide who believed some vaccines cause autism in healthy children as of 2017. It was found that around 44 percent of respondents in India believed vaccines can cause autism, despite this claim being widely discredited.

As of 2023, more than a quarter of people aged 65 and over in the United States thought people with autism faced a great deal of discrimination. In comparison, only 16 percent of respondents aged between 30 and 44 believed that to be the case

According to a survey carried out in the United States in 2023, 60 percent of those aged between 45 and 64 years of age believed the diagnosis rate for autism was increasing. Furthermore, more than half of over 65 year olds also believed autism diagnoses were increasing.

In 2020, it was estimated that for every 1,000 children aged 8 years, around 28 had autism spectrum disorder. This statistic shows the prevalence of autism spectrum disorder among 8-year-old children in the U.S. from 2000 to 2020, per 1,000 children.

The prevalence rate of autism spectrum disorder among white, non-Hispanic eight-year-olds in Georgia was estimated to be 19 per 1,000 children as of 2020. Autism spectrum disorder is a developmental disability characterized by deficits in social communication and interaction as well as repetitive behavior, interest, or activity patterns. This statistic displays the estimated prevalence of autism spectrum disorder among children aged eight years in selected U.S. states in 2020, by race/ethnicity.

This statistic shows the estimated prevalence of autism spectrum disorder among children aged 3 to 17 years in the U.S. from 2016 to 2019, by gender. In that period, around 4.8 percent of male children and 1.3 percent of female children had been diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder at some point in their life.

As of July 2024, almost 20 percent of Republicans and four percent of Democrats surveyed in the United States believed that certain vaccines cause autism. Meanwhile, a majority of Democrats were of the opinion that vaccines are not a cause of autism, and a majority of Republicans were unsure.

In 2023, two-thirds of surveyed Americans believed that autistic people are discriminated against at least to a fair amount in the United States. On the other hand, fewer than ten percent felt autistic people experience no discrimination.

In the academic year of 2022/23, there were approximately 980,000 individuals 3- to 21-years-old with autism in the United States who were covered by the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA). This is an increase from the previous year, when 882,000 individuals with autism were covered under IDEA.

This statistic depicts the share of people who believed some vaccines cause autism in healthy children in Italy in 2017. The statistic’s data source is a survey conducted by Ipsos MORI, included in the study "Perils of Perception 2017". According to the figure, most of the respondents (48 percent) did not believe vaccines cause autism, while 38 per cent of them did not know. Only 14 per cent of the surveyed individuals did think that there is a real correlation between vaccines and autism.

As of 2021, it was estimated that around 67 percent of autistic children in the United States who were Hispanic had public health insurance. This statistic shows the percentage of children in the United States with autism who had health insurance, by race and ethnicity.

This statistic shows the percentage of children aged 3 to 17 years ever diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder in the U.S. in 2014, by ethnicity. In that year, it was estimated that 59.9 percent of the children ever diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder were Non-Hispanic white.

In 2020, around 83 percent of children aged four years with autism in Maryland had their earliest recorded evaluation by age 36 months. This statistic displays the percentage of children aged four years with autism spectrum disorder who were first evaluated by age 36 months in selected U.S. states in 2020.

In 2024, 13 percent of U.S. adults were of the opinion that certain vaccines cause autism in children, an increase from the previous years. The statistic illustrates the percentage of adults in the U.S. who believed vaccines to be a cause of autism in children from 2015 to 2024.

In 2021, around 16 percent of autistic children in the United States who were white had an unmet need for mental health care. This statistic shows the percentage of children in the United States with autism who had an unmet need for mental health care in 2021.

In 2023, approximately 42.7 thousand people in South Korea were registered as having an autism spectrum disorder (ASD). This is an increase of around 2,731 percent from the 2000 number of 1,514 registered cases. There has been a steady increase in registered cases.

When surveyed whether they have a good idea of what autism is, more than 60 percent of people from all age groups in the United States answered positively in 2023. While more than three-quarters of people aged between 30 and 44 said they knew what autism is, around a fifth of adults below 29 and above 65 said they were not sure.

As of 2023, more than half of adults surveyed in the United States believed the diagnosis rate for autism was increasing. In contrast, only two percent of respondents perceived the diagnosis rate for autism to be decreasing.

This statistic shows the percentage of children aged 3 to 17 years ever diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder in the U.S. in 2014, by region. In that year, it was estimated that 31.2 percent of children ever diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder belonged to the southern region of the United States.

This statistic shows the percentage of children aged 3 to 17 years ever diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder in the U.S. in 2011-2013 and 2014, by gender. In 2014, an estimated 75 percent of children diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder were male.