National Statistics Institute Informative Bulletin

Disabilities survey

Results preview. Basic data

9% of the Spanish population has disabilities. More than half of these persons are women. However, by age group, it is observed that in the bracket aged 6 to 44 years old, the number of men with disabilities exceeds the number of women by 32%. This is some of the preview data obtained in the Survey on Disabilities, Impairments and State of Health, 1999, included in this publication.