Editing Disability (section)

=== 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>