What percentage of the global population is disabled?
25 MAY 2005 | GENEVA — Around the world, 600 million people live with some form of disability, often in poor conditions and without access to basic needs. Today, the World Health Assembly has unanimously adopted a resolution that could substantially improve the lives of people with disabilities. http://www.who.int/mediacentre/news/rele… On December 13, 2006, the United Nations formally agreed on the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, the first human rights treaty of the 21st century, to protect and enhance the rights and opportunities of the world’s estimated 650 million disabled people. http://www.un.org/disabilities/ # Around 10 per cent of the world’s population, or 650 million people, live with a disability. They are the world’s largest minority.
