Disability in Somalia refers to the related affairs of people with disability in Somalia.

History Somalia signed the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities on 2 October 2018 and ratified it on 6 August 2019. It went into effect on 5 September 2019.

Statistics As of 2020, there are around 5% of Somalia's population have varying degrees of disability. Types of disability exist in Somalia are physical (26%), visual (15%), hearing (12%), mental (12%), speech (6%), intellectual (5%) and others (24%).

Disability organizations Somali National Association of the Deaf

See also Somalia at the Paralympics

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