Color blindness affects approximately every 1 in 12 men (8%) and 1 in 200 women (0.5%). It is about 15% of the entire population, most of whom are male.This means there is definitely one in your neighborhood or school class affected by it.Most of them are male, because the most common form called red-green color blindness As red-green color blindness is inherited from a mother to her son, a father never passes this type of color blindness on to his children.