The number of U.S. children diagnosed with autism continues to rise, according to a new study from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), with an estimated one in every 31 Americans under the age of eight found to have the condition in 2022.
That compares with a rate of one child in 36 in 2020, the report states, its findings taken from surveillance data from 16 areas that participated in the agency’s Autism and Developmental Disabilities Monitoring Network, but which do not presume to be nationally representative.
