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23.9percent
In 2024, 23.9 percent of people aged 16 years or over in the EU reported some or severe long-standing limitations in their usual activities due to health problems, which Eurostat calls a disability.
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In the source's own words
“In the EU, 23.9% of people aged 16 years or over reported some or severe long-standing limitations in their usual activities due to health problems”
Population with disability (Statistics Explained), Eurostat, Eurostat, 2025, Highlights and the first section, Nearly a quarter of people aged 16 years or over.
Open the original- What it measures
- Eurostat measures disability with a self-reported question about activity limitation in the EU-SILC survey. The article gives no split by grasping, lifting or typing, so it shows the broad group that may find typing hard, not the number who would use dictation.
- What it does not show
- A self-reported limitation in usual activities, not a clinical diagnosis or a count of specific impairments. The article gives the EU average, and the share varies widely by country, from 12.7 percent in Bulgaria to 41.2 percent in Latvia.
In the data
A row of Disability Statistics: Conditions That Make Typing Hard, as Eurostat 2024, disability, EU 16+: 23.9 percent.
- Condition
- Any disability
- Who
- EU residents aged 16 and over
- Country
- European Union
- How measured
- Self-reported
- Year
- 2024