Annual report of the disabled people in Thailand
Situation of disableds in Thailand
- - 2,041,159 peoples with disabilities who received their 'disability identity cards'(PWD) (3.08 percent of the population of the whole country)
- - Persons who are male 1,068,145 (52.33%) and females 973,014 (47.67%)
Disability
in order of percentage from high to low
- 1. Mobility disableds 1,015,955 persons (49.77%)
- 2. Hearing impaired 375,680 persons (18.41%)
- 3. Visually impaired 204,012 persons ( 9.99%)
- 4. Physically impaired 151,329 persons ( 7.41%)
- 5. Psychologic disorders 134,996 persons( 6.61%)
- 6. Autism 12,297 persons ( 0.60%)
- 7. Learning problems 10,133 persons ( 0.50%)
- - More than one type of disability, 128,682 persons (6.30%)
- - Applications in process, eg. waiting for confirmation 8,075 persons (0.40%)
Causes of disabilities
- - No given causes, or unidentified by doctors 59.75%
- - Congenitial disability (present from birth) 15.87%
- - Caused by accidents 11.30%
- - Post birth developped causes (coronaty artery disease / spinal cord disease / infection / diabetes / epilepsy) 7.67%
- - More than one of the causes from above 4.69%
- - Hereditary (genetically from elders) 0.72
Analytical definition by age and disability type
- - Persons in the age range 15 - 60 years 882,576 persons (46.26%)
- - Persons 60 years and older 1,109,281 persons (51.97%)
- - People with disabilities between the ages 22 - 59 years with the highest rate of disability type 47.04% and the eldery(60 years and older) 55.58%
- - People with disabilities in their infancy and grow-up years have the highest ratio of intellecutally disorders 29.84%
Education for the disabled
Uneducated people with disabilities 96,077 peoples (4.71% from those who have the PWD card) are divided in the following:
- - Underaged for study (preschool age) 6,640 (6.91%)
- - Peoples who has (already) reached the age of education 89,437 (93.09%)
- .. of whom are eldery peoples (Aged 60 and up) 33,587 (83.49%)
- - Primary education 1,167,780 (94.79%)
- - Secondary education 25,518 ( 2.07%)
- - Non-Formal education (outside school) 16,444 (1.33%)
- - Lower primary education 8,779 (0.71%)
- - Diploma or Certificate level 5,179 (0.42%)
- - Undergraduate level 4,295 (0.35%)
- - Postgraduate level 3,273 (0.26%)
- - Other minor certifications 767 (0.06%)
Educated people with disabilities 1,231,999(from those who have the PWD card) are divided in the following:
People with disabilities who has reached the age for working
- Aged 15 - 60 years 882,576 peoples
- - Employed peoples 218,392 (24.74%)
- - Unemployed peoples who are able to work 156,905 (17.78%)
- - Unable to work (Due to the grade of their disability) 59,712 (6.77%)
- - No occupational information are given by 447,567 peoples (50.71%)
- Occupations of working peoples:
- - Agriculture business 25.79%
- - General business 24.66%
- - Private business / self employed 6.67%
- - Private sector 4.69%
- - Civil and/or other state enterprises 0.36%
- - Other / Unspecified 37.83%
Source: www.dep.go.th