how many albinos in the world
Published May 18, 2017. • 2 min read. A rare albino orangutan was rescued earlier this month from a village in Indonesia where it was kept in a cage. The five-year-old orangutan, which was
This paper goes through the life of an albino and shows how much danger they are in and how many people think completely different of the albino people. They believe that their lives are only worth $75,000 dollars and are willing to kill them. Also, different people believe that albinos can bring riches and prosperity or even be a curse to them Tanzania has one of the highest rates of albinism in the world — nearly 1 in every 1,400 people. That compares to about 1 in 20,000 worldwide. Enlarge this image In Tanzania, only 2% of people born with albinism will live to the age of 40. But in some African communities, the U.S. and other parts of the world, light skin may also lead to prejudicialA report by the International Red Cross on the situation of people with albinism in the Great Lake region similarly concluded likewise that the use of the body parts of murdered albinos as good-luck charms suddenly came from witch doctors, who equally faced the same economic pinch as everyone else around the world during this particular period.