Policies and Programmes for Disabled People in the Commonwealth
Report of a Survey

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Setting the Scene
The assumption of the International Year was that one person in ten throughout the world suffered from some degree of disability. This assumption was based on a 1968 estimate by Rehabilitation International that the number of disabled people in the world was 450 million, increasing by some 3 million annually. While it is not possible to verify this figure, it is significant that it was not seriously challenged during the Year.
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