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Rabat – Nearly 5.1 % of Morocco’s population was disabled (1,703,424 people) in 2014, the High Commission for Planning (HCP) said.
The prevalence of disability is relatively higher in rural areas (5.5%: 727,833 people) than urban areas (4.8%: 975 591 people), the HCP noted on the basis of data collected during 2014 General Census of population and housing.
There are no significant differences in prevalence among women (5.1%: 859,965 women) and men (5%: 843,459 men), the source added.
Among the disabled population, 46.5% (791,264 people) are aged 60 and over, 45.6 % (776,778 people) aged 15-59 and 7.9% are under the age of 15 years (135,382 people), according to the same source.
According to the HCP, about 46.5% (791,328 people) of people with disabilities are married, 29% are single (493,546 people), 21.6% are widows (367,824 people) and 3% are divorced (50,726 people).
About 66.5% (1,133,615) of people with disabilities have no education against 35.3% among the non-disabled people. The rate is higher among women (79.5%) than among men (53.4%).
The unemployment rate among the disabled population does not exceed 2.7 %, against 5.7% for non-disabled people.
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