Disability in Somalia

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]

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]

• Somali National Association of the Deaf

• Somalia at the Paralympics