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

Household Population
with Disability

(in 1,000)

(in 1,000)

Proportion of Persons
with Disability to the
Household Population
(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.