Editing Disability (section)

==Demographics==
Estimates of worldwide and country-wide numbers of disabled people are problematic. The varying approaches taken to defining disability notwithstanding, demographers agree that the world population of individuals with disabilities is very large. For example, in 2012, the [[World Health Organization]] estimated a world population of 6.5 billion people. Of those, nearly 650 million people, or 10%, were estimated to be moderately or severely disabled.<ref name="World Health Organization">{{cite web |title=Disability World Report |url=https://www.who.int/disabilities/world_report/2011/report/en/ |publisher=World Health Organization |year=2011 |access-date=January 8, 2015 |archive-date=January 19, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150119103941/http://www.who.int/disabilities/world_report/2011/report/en/ |url-status=live }}</ref> In 2018 the [[International Labour Organization]] estimated that about a billion people, one-seventh of the world population, had disabilities, 80% of them in developing countries, and 80% of working age. Excluding disabled people from the workforce was reckoned to cost up to 7% of [[gross domestic product]].<ref>{{cite news |title=For many, disability is part of what it means to be human |url=https://www.ft.com/content/f4e2dc50-3dab-11e8-bcc8-cebcb81f1f90 |first = Andrew  |   last   = Jack  |access-date=August 14, 2018 |newspaper=Financial Times | location =  Bracken House; London |format = Special report Modern workplace: Disability    | publisher = Nikkei  |  issn = 0307-1766 |date=May 11, 2018 |archive-date=August 15, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180815024712/https://www.ft.com/content/f4e2dc50-3dab-11e8-bcc8-cebcb81f1f90 |url-status=live }}</ref>

=== United States ===
According to the [[Centers for Disease Control and Prevention|Centers for Disease Control]]'s Morbidity and Mortality weekly report, one-fourth of people in the United States are reported to be disabled as of 2016. 10% of young adults were reported to have mental disabilities. The rates of mobility-related issues were highest among middle-aged people and elderly people, with 18.1% and 26.9%, respectively.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Okoro |first=Catherine A. |date=2018 |title=Prevalence of Disabilities and Health Care Access by Disability Status and Type Among Adults — United States, 2016 |url=https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/67/wr/mm6732a3.htm |journal=MMWR. Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report |language=en-us |volume=67 |issue=32 |pages=882–887 |doi=10.15585/mmwr.mm6732a3 |pmid=30114005 |pmc=6095650 |issn=0149-2195}}</ref> In terms of race or ethnicity, Asians have the lowest reported rate of disability at around 10%, while Native Americans, the ethnic group with the highest reported incidence, are reported to have a disability rate at an estimated 30% of adults. African Americans had a higher reported disability rate of 25%, compared to 16% for white adults and 17% for Hispanic people.<ref>{{Cite web |last=CDC |date=October 25, 2019 |title=Infographic: Adults with Disabilities: Ethnicity and Race {{!}} CDC |url=https://www.cdc.gov/ncbddd/disabilityandhealth/materials/infographic-disabilities-ethnicity-race.html |access-date=September 22, 2022 |website=Centers for Disease Control and Prevention |language=en-us}}</ref>

=== Canada ===
22.3% of Canadians over 15 are reported to have a disability, or 6,246,640 people, according to the 2017 Canadian Survey on Disability Reports. In Canada, women and older people are more likely to be disabled than working-class men. In comparison to working-age persons between 25 and 65, seniors over 65 reported a disability rate of 38%, which is nearly twice as high. In Canada, women over 15 had a reported disability rate of 24.3%, compared to men's 20%.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Government of Canada |first=Statistics Canada |date=November 28, 2018 |title=A demographic, employment and income profile of Canadians with disabilities aged 15 years and over, 2017 |url=https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/pub/89-654-x/89-654-x2018002-eng.htm |access-date=October 5, 2022 |website=www150.statcan.gc.ca}}</ref>  According to reports from the 2017 Canadian Survey of Disability, South Asians over the age of 15 in Canada had the greatest proportion of disability at 4%, while Latin Americans had a lower rate at 1%.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Government of Canada |first=Statistics Canada |date=December 3, 2020 |title=The Daily — A profile of Canadians with a mobility disability and groups designated as visible minorities with a disability |url=https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/daily-quotidien/201203/dq201203a-eng.htm |access-date=October 5, 2022 |website=www150.statcan.gc.ca}}</ref>

=== Australia ===
Nearly one in five Australians, or 4.4 million people, were estimated by [[Australian Bureau of Statistics|the Australian Bureau of Statistics]] to have a disability. A mental or behavioral issue was reported in over 25% of Australians with disabilities. Male prevalence was 17.6 million, while female prevalence was somewhat higher at 17.8 million between the sexes. Age-wise, 11.6% of adults between 0 and 64 in Australia had a disability, compared to 49.6% of seniors 65 and over. 53.4% of Australians aged 15 to 64 who have a disability are employed.<ref>{{Cite web |date=September 25, 2020 |title=Disability, Ageing and Carers, Australia: Summary of Findings, 2018 {{!}} Australian Bureau of Statistics |url=https://www.abs.gov.au/statistics/health/disability/disability-ageing-and-carers-australia-summary-findings/latest-release |access-date=October 5, 2022 |website=www.abs.gov.au |language=en}}</ref>

=== United Kingdom ===
According to the [[House of Commons Library]], 14.6 million, or 22%, of the population in the UK, were reported to be disabled in 2020–2021. In the UK, there were 9% of children, 21% of working-age people, and 42% of persons over the state pension age who were disabled or impaired.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Family Resources Survey: financial year 2020 to 2021 |url=https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/family-resources-survey-financial-year-2020-to-2021 |access-date=October 5, 2022 |website=GOV.UK |language=en}}</ref> Approximately 29% of White individuals, 27% of mixed-race people, 22% of Asian people, 21% of Black people, and 19% of people from other ethnic groups were reported as having impairments or disabilities, according to the Life Opportunities Survey, which surveyed 35,875 people in 2011. When compared to men, women are a little more likely than men to have a disability, with 31% of women reportedly having one as opposed to 26% of men, according to results of another survey taken the same year.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Life Opportunities Survey: wave 1 results |url=https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/life-opportunities-survey-wave-one-results-2009-to-2011 |access-date=October 5, 2022 |website=GOV.UK |language=en}}</ref>

=== China ===
According to Twenty-Year Trends in the Prevalence of Disability in China, a medical publication from the [[United States National Library of Medicine|National Library of Medicine]], there were an estimated 84.6 million Chinese individuals living with a disability in 2006. In a 2006 poll of 83,342 men and 78,137 women, the age groups with the highest reported rates of disability are 18–44-year-old males (22.5%) and 65–74-year-old females (22.8%), according to polls published in the journal that were representative of the country as a whole. In China, the percentage of people with disabilities varies substantially between urban and rural regions, with men and women having reported rates of&nbsp;72.4% and 72.2%, respectively, in rural China, compared to reported rates of 27.6% and 27.8%, respectively, in urban China. Hearing and speech disabilities are the most commonly reported in China, with men being more affected than women at rates 39.6% and 36.2% among disabled people, respectively.<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Zheng |first1=Xiaoying |last2=Chen |first2=Gong |last3=Song |first3=Xinming |last4=Liu |first4=Jufen |last5=Yan |first5=Lijing |last6=Du |first6=Wei |last7=Pang |first7=Lihua |last8=Zhang |first8=Lei |last9=Wu |first9=Jilei |last10=Zhang |first10=Bingzi |last11=Zhang |first11=Jun |date=November 1, 2011 |title=Twenty-year trends in the prevalence of disability in China  |journal=Bulletin of the World Health Organization |volume=89 |issue=11 |pages=788–797 |doi=10.2471/BLT.11.089730 |issn=0042-9686 |pmc=3209727 |pmid=22084524}}</ref>

=== South Korea ===
In South Korea, there were accounted to be 2.517 million people with disabilities in total, or roughly 5.0% of the population, in 2018. When compared to Koreans without disabilities, people with disabilities spent an average of 56.5 days in medical facilities, which was 2.6 more than the national average. 34.9% of the entire workforce was employed in jobs connected to disabilities. Families with disabilities made an average income of 41.53 million won, or 71.3% of total family earnings. According to the Korean 2020 Statistics on the Disabled The majority of persons with disabilities needed help with "cleaning" and "using transportation", among other everyday tasks.<ref>{{Cite web |title=문서뷰어 |url=http://kostat.go.kr/assist/synap/preview/skin/miri.html?fn=ea190147732590130213133&rs=/assist/synap/preview |access-date=October 8, 2022 |website=kostat.go.kr}}</ref>

=== Developing nations ===
Disability is more common in developing than in [[Developed country|developed nations.]] The connection between [[disability and poverty]] is thought to be part of a "vicious cycle" in which these constructs are mutually reinforcing.<ref>{{cite journal | author = Yeo R., Moore K. | year = 2003 | title = Including disabled people in poverty reduction work: 'Nothing about us, without us' | doi = 10.1016/S0305-750X(02)00218-8 | journal = World Development | volume = 31 | issue = 3| pages = 571–90 }}</ref>