Statistics PWDs PH

Based on the DSWD Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program (CCT) 2011
HH Surveyed
HH with PWDs
HH with Deaf
HH with Blind
HH with Speech/
Comm disorder
HH with Ortho
HH with Intellect
HH with other dis
4,446,649
302,421
27,972
53,034
100.00%
6.77
0.63
1.19
28,259
41,551
28,610
77,599
0.63
0.93
0.64
1.74
Based on 2010 Consensus

Household Population and Persons with Disability by Region, 2010
Region
Household Population
with Disability
(in 1,000)
(in 1,000)
Proportion of Persons
with Disability to the
(in percent)
92,098
1,443
1.57
National Capital Region 11,797
167
1.41
Cordillera
Administrative Region
1,612
26
1.63
Region 1- Ilocos
4,743
78
1.64
Region II- Cagayan

Valley
3,226
56
1.72
Region III- Central

Luzon
10,118
139
1.38
Region IV-A
CALABARZON
12,583
193
1.53
Region IV-B
MIMAROPA
2,732
50
1.85
Region V- Bicol
5,412
100
1.85
Region VI- Western

Visayas
7,090
138
1.95
Region VII- Central

Visayas
6,785
109
1.6
Region VIII- Eastern
4,090
72
1.75
Philippines
Visayas
Region IX- Zamboanga 3,398
Peninsula
46
1.35
Region X- Northern
Mindanao
4,285
67
1.56
Region XI- Davao
4,453
71
1.6
Region XIISOCCSKSARGEN
4,103
59
1.43
ARMM
3,249
35
1.07
Region XIII- Caraga
2,425
38
1.58
Household Population with Disability by broad age group and sex: PH 2010
Age Group
Persons with Disability (in 1,000) by Sex

Total
Male
Female
Sex Ratio
All Ages
1,443
734
709
104
0-14
272
149
123
121
15-49
578
312
266
117
50-64
274
141
133
106
65 years and over
319
132
187
70
Philippine population estimates for Children with Disabilities CWDs using WHO formulation
Year (10%)
Total Population
Age 5-14
% of Population
CWD estimate
2000
76,946,500
17,703,400
23.0
1,770,340
2005
85,261,000
19,478,500
22.8
1,947,850
2010
94,013,200
20,171,800
21.5
2,017,180
2015
102,965,300
21,294,500
20.7
2,129,450
2020
111,784,600
22,288,400
19.9
2,228,840
2025
120,224,500
22,870,500
19.0
2,287,050
2030
128,110,000
23,012,400
18.0
2,301,240
In the Philippines (2014), 348,771 people are blind; common causes of blindness are cataract, retinal
and macular diseases, optic nerve diseases, glaucoma, and trauma. The Department of Health and
Philippine Academy of Ophthalmology work together for Vision 2020 Philippines to address the
incidence of avoidable blindness, whose causes are cataract, errors of refraction, and childhood
blindness.
Source: http://www.mb.com.ph/health-world-sight-day-no-more-avoidableblindness/#oHZGFQAQF4ZQQKFt.99
According to the 2000 NSO census the total number of Persons with Disability in the Philippines is
1.2% of the total population or 942,098. Among these 4.7% or 44,725 people are classified as Hard of
Hearing. They are those that are deaf, partially deaf, or with poor hearing ability.
UN
Around 15% of the world's population, or estimated 1 billion people, live with disabilities. They are the
world's largest minority.
This figure is increasing through population growth, medical advances and the ageing process, says the
World Health Organization.
In countries with life expectancies over 70 years, individuals spend on average about 8 years, or 11.5
percent of their life span, living with disabilities.
Eighty percent of persons with disabilities live in developing countries, according to the UN
Development Programme
Disability rates are significantly higher among groups with lower educational attainment in the
countries of the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), says the OECD
Secretariat. On average, 19 percent of less educated people have disabilities, compared to 11 percent
among the better educated.
In most OECD countries, women report higher incidents of disability than men
The World Bank estimates that 20 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.
Women with disabilities are recognized to be multiply disadvantaged, experiencing exclusion on
account of their gender and their disability.
Women and girls with disabilities are particularly vulnerable to abuse. A small 2004 survey in Orissa,
India, found that virtually all of the women and girls with disabilities were beaten at home, 25 percent
of women with intellectual disabilities had been raped and 6 percent of women with disabilities have
been forcibly sterilized.
According to UNICEF, 30 percent of street youths have some kind of disability.
Mortality for children with disabilities may be as high as 80 percent in countries where under five
mortality as a whole has decreased below 20 percent, says the United Kingdom's Department of
International Development, adding that in some cases it seems as if children are being
weeded out
Comparative studies on disability legislation shows that only 45 countries have anti-discrimination and
other disability-specific laws
Key facts on visual impairment and blindness (world wide)

Key facts (2014)
285 million people are estimated to be visually impaired worldwide: 39 million are blind and 246 have
low vision.
About 90% of the world's visually impaired live in low-income settings
82% of people living with blindness are aged 50 and above
Globally, uncorrected refractive errors are the main cause of moderate and severe visual impairment;
cataracts remain leading cause of blindness in middle- and low- income countries.
The number of people visually impaired from infectious diseases has reduced in the last 20 years
according to global estimates work.
80% of all visual impairment can be prevented or cured.
Key facts on disabling hearing loss. (WHO, 2012)

Estimates are as follows:
There are 360 million persons in the world with disabling hearing loss (5.3% of the world's population)
328 million (91%) of these are adults (183 million males, 145 million females)
32 (9%) million of these are children
The prevalence of disabling hearing loss in children is greatest in South Asia, Asia Pacific and SubSaharan Africa.
Approximately one-third of persons over 65 years are affected by disabling hearing loss
The prevalence of disabling hearing loss in adults over 65 years is highest in South Asia, Asia Pacific,
and Sub-Saharan Africa.

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Based on the DSWD Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program (CCT) 2011

Based on 2010 Consensus

National Capital Region 11,797

Region II- Cagayan

Region III- Central

Region VI- Western

Region VII- Central

Region VIII- Eastern

Region XI- Davao

Region XIII- Caraga

Persons with Disability (in 1,000) by Sex

65 years and over

Key facts on visual impairment and blindness (world wide)

Key facts on disabling hearing loss. (WHO, 2012)

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