Debra L Cameron, PhD OT (Reg) and others, Children with disabilities in low-income countries, Paediatrics & Child Health, Volume 10, Issue 5, 5/6 2005, Pages 269–272, https://doi.org/10.1093/pch/10.5.269

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- The disabled population has a large percentage of children, with one third being children. 
  - Many of these disabilities are preventable, but lack of access to healthcare makes treatment difficult, resulting in 65 percent of disabilities affecting children being preventable. 
  - Even more alarming is the research that 98 percent of children with disabilities in low-income countries (LICs) do not attend school.
- Ten percent of the world's population has a sensory, physical, or intellectual disability. 
- Once taking family members into account, about 25 percent of people in the world are impacted by disabilities.
- Two thirds of all people with disabilities live in LICs. Global disability is rapidly increasing, mainly due to population growth in less developed countries, and this further shows the alarming disparity of disabled populations across the world. 

Statistics of Disabilities Across the World

Children with disabilities in low-income countries 

The WHO (World Health Organization) reported that infectious disease was one of the most significant causes of disability in Africa. Some of the most common communicable diseases include malaria, polio, leprosy, tuberculosis, trachoma, otitis media, meningitis. and various parasitic diseases. In developed countries many of these diseases have been greatly reduced to health care and vaccinations but these diseases remain leading causes of disability in LICs.

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