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| In countries with life expectancies over 70 years of age, people spend on average about 8 years, or ______ percent of their life span, living with disabilities. | 11.5 disabled-world.com/disability/statistics/ |
| Currently around ______% of the world's population, or roughly 650 million people, live with a disability. | 10 disabled-world.com/disability/statistics/ |
| In most of the OECD countries, who has higher rate of disability female or male? (Organisation for Economic Co‑operation) | Females disabled-world.com/disability/statistics/ |
| ______ percent of persons with disabilities live in developing countries, according to the UN Development Program (UNDP). | 80 disabled-world.com/disability/statistics/ |
| The World Bank estimates that ______ percent of the world's poorest people have some kind of disability, and tend to be regarded in their own communities as the most disadvantaged. | 20 disabled-world.com/disability/statistics/ |
| A study in the UK found that the poverty rate for disabled people was 23.1 percent compared to 17.9 percent for non-disabled people, but when extra expenses associated with being disabled were considered, the poverty rate for people with disabilities shot up to ______ percent. | 47.4 disabled-world.com/disability/statistics/ |
| Disability rates in the population are higher among groups with ___________________ in the countries of the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). | lower education level disabled-world.com/disability/statistics/ |
| On average, ______ percent of less educated people have disabilities, compared to 11 per cent among the better educated. | 19 disabled-world.com/disability/statistics/ |
| ______ percent of children with disabilities in developing countries do not attend school, says UNESCO. | 90 disabled-world.com/disability/statistics/ |
| Persons with disabilities are more likely to be victims of ______ or ____, according to a 2004 British study, and less likely to obtain police intervention, legal protection or preventive care. | violence or rape disabled-world.com/disability/statistics/ |
| A survey in Orissa, India, found that virtually all of the women and girls with disabilities were ______________, 25 percent of women with intellectual disabilities had been ____ and 6 percent of women with disabilities had been forcibly ________. | Beaten at home raped sterilized disabled-world.com/disability/statistics/ |
| Research indicates that violence against ______ with disabilities occurs at annual rates at least 1.7 times greater than for their peers without disabilities. | children disabled-world.com/disability/statistics/ |
| ______ in _____ U.S. adults - 61 million Americans - have a disability that impacts major life activities, according to a report in CDC's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report. (U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) | 1 in 4 disabled-world.com/disability/statistics/1in4.php |
| The most common disability type, _______, affects _____ in _____ adults. With age, disability becomes more common, affecting about ____ in ____ adults age 65 and older. | mobility 1 in 7 2 in 5 disabled-world.com/disability/statistics/1in4.php |
| After mobility disability, the next most common disability type is _______, followed by independent living, hearing, vision, and self-care. | cognition disabled-world.com/disability/statistics/1in4.php |
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