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Persons legally recognised as being disabled. By type of disability

Persons legally recognised as being disabled. By type of disability Catalonia. 2019
Value Variation (%)
Physical 330,088 5.2
Visual 34,451 1.8
Hearing 33,519 3.7
Intellectual disability 66,741 6.4
Mentally ill 118,471 4.0
Multiple disability (physical and intellectual) 5,871 17.4
Not stated 21,893 7.3
Total 611,034 5.0
Source: Ministry of Labour, Social Affairs and Families.

Last update: April 26, 2021.

Methodological note

It provides information regarding those who, as of 31 December, had a legal recognition of being disabled in a degree of disability higher than 32%.

The presentation of the data by type of disability is done according the typology normally used by the Ministry of Labour, Social Affairs and Families. It is based on the features of the main disability of the affected individual.

In 2015 there was an break in time series for administrative reasons: on the one hand, the incorporation of people benefiting from contributory invalidity pensions that were not previously acknowledged and, on the other, a special delisting editing process.

You can get more information about these statistics in the methodology.