Disability Discrimination
1. The poverty rate for people with disabilities: 47%. 90% of children who have a disability do not attend school.
2. 10% of the total world’s population, or roughly 650 million people, live with a disability.
3. About 1 in 3 employers say that they do not hire people with disabilities because the cannot perform required job tasks.
4. Only 45 countries in the world today have anti-discrimination laws that help to protect individuals who have a disability. About 1 in 4 people with a disability will face at least one incident of discrimination every day.
5. 38%. That’s the percentage of people who believe that someone with a disability is a burden on society.
6. The percentage of people who resent the perception of extra attention that someone with a disability receives: 28%.
