Report on Disability Situation in Thailand 2565

Situation of people with disabilities in Thailand

• - 2,138,155 people with disabilities who received a disability identification card (3.23 percent of the total population)
  ****Demographics of Thailand from Central Registration Office, Department of Provincial Administration as of December 31, 2021
• - Disabled people, 1,117,056 males (52.24%), and females 1,021,099 (47.76%)

disability type

• 1st, kinetic or physical, 1,082,795 people (50.64%)
• 2nd place through hearing or communicating, 398,659 people (18.65 percent)
• 3rd place visually 185,523 people (8.68%)
• 4th place, mental or behavioral, 166,503 people (7.79%)
• 5th place intellectually, 145,514 people (6.81 percent)
• 6th place, 124,065 people with more than one type of disability (5.80 percent)
• 7th place with autism, 18,737 (0.88%)
• 8th place in learning, 14,502 people (0.68%)
• 9th place, data pending confirmation, 1,857 people (0.09 percent)
• Total 2,138,155 people (100.00 percent)

analyzed by age and disability type

• - There are 1,205,184 persons with disabilities aged 60 years and over, 56.37% (of the total number of persons with disabilities)
• - 855,025 people with disabilities in working age, aged 15 - 59, 39.99 per cent (of the total number of people with disabilities)
• - People with disabilities aged 15 - 59 years and elderly people (aged 60 years and over) had the greatest disability. accounted for 44.00 percent and 57.37% of the number of people with disabilities aged 15-59 and 60 years and over, respectively.
• - People with disabilities in childhood and school age (0 - 21 years) had the highest ratio of people with disabilities, 45,629, representing 30.28 percent of the number of people with disabilities in childhood and school age ( 0 - 21 years) all

cause of disability

• 1st place: 44.78% of physicians did not specify cause of disability
• 2nd place, unknown reason 25.43
• 3rd place, other illnesses/diseases 21.14 percent
• 4th place, accident 7.90%
• 5th place, hereditary / heredity 0.70%, 6th place, 0.05 percent congenital

education of people with disabilities

• - 24,888 people with disabilities who did not receive education, or 1.16 percent (of people with disabilities with a disability identification card), divided into
• - Underage age 1,243 people (4.99% of people with disabilities who are not educated)
• - 14,339 persons with disabilities who reached the age of majority without education (57.61% of those with disabilities who did not receive education)
• - and 9,306 people with uneducated disabled people (38.39% of uneducated people with disabilities)
• - 1,673,649 people with disabilities who received education, or 78.28 percent (of people with disabilities with a disability identification card)

The top 5 levels of education that people with disabilities receive the most are:

• 1st place, primary education level, 1,360,028 people (81.26 percent)
• 2nd place, education level, secondary school, 199,741 people (11.93%)
• 3rd place, education level Certificate in Education, 41,789 people (2.50 percent)
• 4th place, higher education level, 10,848 people (1.74 percent)
• 5th place, education level Unspecified study, 16,855 people (0.65%)

people with disabilities who are of working age

855,025 persons with disabilities who are of working age (15 - 59 years old)
1. 1. 312,096 people with disabilities who are engaged in occupation, 36.50% (of the total number of people with disabilities of working age)
2. 2. Persons with disabilities who are able to work but noted that 69,250 people were unemployed, 8.10% (of the total number of people with disabilities of working age)
3. 3. Persons with disabilities who are unable to work (because of disabilities of 52,181 people, 6.10 percent (of the total number of people with disabilities of working age)
4. 4. 421,498 persons with disabilities who do not wish to provide information and do not provide occupational information, 49.30% (of the total number of persons with disabilities of working age)
5. 5. Occupation of persons with disabilities Agriculture 53.63% General employed 23.21% Unspecified 5.67% Self-employed/self-employed 6.26%
6. Private sector employees/company employees 5.86%, others 3.90%, government service/state enterprises 1.23%, and personal business/self-employed/trading 0.23%