Table 2.

Global and regional prevalence estimates of disabilities among children younger than 18 years from UNICEF 2022.

	Children under aged 0 to 4 years			Children aged 5 to 17 years			Children aged 0 to 17 years
Region	%	95% CI	Number of children ('000)	%	95% CI	Number of children ('000)	%	95% CI	Number of children ('000)
North America	4.4	3.9–4.9	943	12.0	11.3–12.7	7,073	9.9	9.5–10.4	8,016
Europe and Central Asia	2.7	2.4–3.1	1,515	6.5	5.6–7.4	9,299	5.5	4.9–6.0	10,814
East Asia and the Pacific	3.5	3.3–3.8	5,333	9.5	7.5–11.6	37,788	7.8	6.7–9.1	43,121
Latin America and the Caribbean	3.8	3.3–4.5	1,978	12.6	11.5–13.7	17,102	10.2	9.6–10.8	19,080
South Asia	3.7	2.9–4.7	6,254	13.0	10.2–16.1	58,177	10.5	9.0–12.2	64,431
Middle East and North Africa	4.5	3.3–6.0	2,246	16.9	13.5–20.5	18,694	13.1	11.3–15.1	20,940
Sub-Saharan Africa	6.0	5.2–7.0	10,648	15.9	13.3−18.6	59,300	12.7	11.2–14.3	69,948
Eastern and Southern Africa	5.2	4.5–6.0	4,509	12.8	11.2–14.4	24,356	10.4	9.5–11.3	28,865
West and Central Africa	6.8	5.8–7.9	6,139	18.9	15.3–22.7	34,944	14.9	12.8–17.2	41,083
Global	4.3	4.1–4.6	28,917	12.5	11.7–13.3	207,433	10.1	9.6–10.6	236,350

UNICEF 2022 (Reference 17).