2009 Kenya Population and Housing Census “Counting Our People for Implementation of Vision 2030” VOLUME XIII Disability

Abstract

The proportion of the population with disability was 3.5 percent. The highest was physical disability, 25.3 percent, followed closely by visual impairment, 24.9 percent. The least prevalent disability was self-care at 5.8 percent. The number of persons with disabilities increased by age from 1.4 percent for children age 0 to 4 years to about 30 percent for those aged 90 years and above. Nyanza province had the highest proportion of persons with disabilities, 5.6 percent, followed by Western at 4.9 percent. Nairobi province had the least population of PWDs at 2.1 percent. Generally there is little difference in proportion of PWDs by male, 3.4 percent and female, 3.5 percent.