Nearly 1 in 7 People on Earth are Disabled, Survey Says

The universality of disability is underscored in the results of a new international survey from the World Health Organization and the World Bank, who announced that nearly 15 percent of the world's population - or almost 1 in every 7 people - can be categorized as "disabled."  And this estimate is only likely to grow as the global population ages.

In the introduction to the report, disabled scientist Stephen Hawking writes that we have a "moral duty to remove the barriers to participation, and to invest sufficient funding and expertise to unlock the vast potential of people with disabilities."