Disability in Somalia

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.^[1]

Statistics

As of 2020, there are around 5% of Somalia's population have varying degrees of disability.^[2] Types of disability exist in Somalia are physical (26%), visual (15%), hearing (12%), mental (12%), speech (6%), intellectual (5%) and others (24%).^[3]

Disability organizations

• Somali National Association of the Deaf

See also

• Somalia at the Paralympics

References

1. "Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities". United Nations Treaty Collection. Retrieved 17 June 2025.
2. "Living with disabilities is no barrier to living with dignity and pride". World Health Organization Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean. Retrieved 21 September 2023.
3. Rohwerder, Brigitte (19 January 2018). "Disability in Somalia" (PDF). GOV.UK. Retrieved 21 September 2023.