Disability Statistics Report

The World Report on Disability suggests more than a billion people totally experience disability. They generally have poorer health, lower education and fewer economic opportunities and higher rates of poverty than people without disabilities. This report provides the best available evidence about what works to overcome barriers to better care and services.

This publication is aimed at assisting national statistical offices and other producers of disability statistics in improving the collection, compilation and dissemination of disability data. Examples are included from both developing and developed countries. It is one of two recent UN reports concerned with the development of statistics and indicators relating to people with disabilities. It builds on the first report, 'Manual for the Development of Statistical Information for Disability Programmes and Policies' (ISBN 9211613809), and also on the section on disability in the publication 'Principles and Recommendations for Population and Housing Censuses (Revision 1) (ISBN 9211614023).