employment of persons with disabilities
Disability:
Facts and Statistics
Disability affects hundreds of millions of families in
c) Projected increases in the number
developing countries. Currently around 10 percent of
of disabled children over the next 30
years, particularly in the developing
the total world’s population, or roughly 650 million people,
countries, due to malnutrition, dis-
live with a disability. In most of the OECD countries, eases, child labor and other causes;
females have higher rates of disability than males.
d) Armed conflict and violence. For
every child killed in warfare, three are
injured and acquire a permanent form
of disability. In some countries, up to a
H
aving a disability places you in own communities as the most disad- quarter of disabilities result from
the world’s largest minority vantaged. Statistics show a steady injuries and violence, says WHO.
group. As the population ages increase in these numbers. The reasons In countries with life expectancies
this figure is expected to increase. include: over 70 years of age, people spend on
Eighty per cent of persons with disabil- a) Emergence of new diseases and average about 8 years, or 11.5 per cent
ities live in developing countries, other causes of impairment, such as of their life span, living with disabili-
according to the UN Development Pro- HIV/AIDS, stress and alcohol and drug ties.
gram (UNDP). The World Bank esti- abuse; The two-way link between poverty
mates that 20 per cent of the world’s b) Increasing life span and numbers and disability creates a vicious circle.
poorest people have some kind of dis- of elderly persons, many of whom Poor people are more at risk of acquir-
ability, and tend to be regarded in their have impairments; ing a disability because of lack of
access to good nutrition, health care,
sanitation, as well as safe living and
working conditions. Once this occurs,
people face barriers to the education,
employment, and public services that
can help them escape poverty.
Dr. Amartya Sen pointed out in his
keynote address at the World Bank’s
conference on disability, the poverty
line for disabled people should take
into account the extra expenses they
incur in exercising what purchasing
power they do have. A study in the
United Kingdom found that the pover-
ty rate for disabled people was 23.1
percent compared to 17.9 percent for
non-disabled people, but when extra
expenses associated with being dis-
abled were considered, the poverty rate
for people with disabilities shot up to
47.4 percent.
Disability rates in the population are
higher among groups with lower edu-
cational level in the countries of the
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