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By degree of disability and sex. Counties and Aran, areas and provinces

Persons legally recognised as being disabled. By degree of disability and sex. Counties and Aran, areas and provinces 2022
By degree of disability By sex
From 33% to 64% From 65% to 74% 75% & more Men Women Total
Alt Camp 2,262 881 625 1,947 1,821 3,768
Alt Empordà 5,698 2,538 1,244 5,106 4,374 9,480
Alt Penedès 5,349 1,583 1,120 4,030 4,022 8,052
Alt Urgell 908 265 209 721 661 1,382
Alta Ribagorça 134 45 37 111 105 216
Anoia 6,385 2,011 1,482 4,809 5,069 9,878
Aran 300 94 62 239 217 456
Bages 11,411 3,278 1,996 8,192 8,493 16,685
Baix Camp 10,416 4,160 2,811 9,087 8,300 17,387
Baix Ebre 5,108 2,327 1,448 4,303 4,580 8,883
Baix Empordà 6,419 2,734 1,199 5,386 4,966 10,352
Baix Llobregat 45,782 16,010 10,566 35,318 37,040 72,358
Baix Penedès 6,120 2,230 1,469 4,942 4,877 9,819
Barcelonès 121,339 57,904 44,234 101,677 121,800 223,477
Berguedà 3,692 836 451 2,403 2,576 4,979
Cerdanya 492 205 113 431 379 810
Conca de Barberà 837 336 271 728 716 1,444
Garraf 5,956 2,216 1,604 4,784 4,992 9,776
Garrigues 839 308 234 685 696 1,381
Garrotxa 2,481 960 536 2,080 1,897 3,977
Gironès 10,221 4,441 2,150 8,604 8,208 16,812
Maresme 18,558 6,023 4,714 14,672 14,623 29,295
Moianès 566 176 150 430 462 892
Montsià 3,881 1,753 1,050 3,149 3,535 6,684
Noguera 1,828 589 481 1,496 1,402 2,898
Osona 7,256 2,181 1,583 5,546 5,474 11,020
Pallars Jussà 677 217 157 497 554 1,051
Pallars Sobirà 259 78 53 214 176 390
Pla d'Urgell 1,624 560 561 1,323 1,422 2,745
Pla de l'Estany 1,530 541 291 1,244 1,118 2,362
Priorat 378 145 128 338 313 651
Ribera d'Ebre 988 462 325 865 910 1,775
Ripollès 1,288 499 233 1,047 973 2,020
Segarra 1,070 329 264 827 836 1,663
Segrià 12,117 4,281 3,329 9,633 10,094 19,727
Selva 8,591 3,232 1,527 6,846 6,504 13,350
Solsonès 717 190 150 507 550 1,057
Tarragonès 15,057 5,135 3,553 12,096 11,649 23,745
Terra Alta 535 210 129 418 456 874
Urgell 1,625 505 445 1,276 1,299 2,575
Vallès Occidental 49,484 15,193 9,922 37,403 37,196 74,599
Vallès Oriental 19,138 6,166 4,427 14,853 14,878 29,731
Catalonia 399,316 153,827 107,333 320,263 340,213 660,476
Metropolità 254,439 101,339 73,905 204,037 225,646 429,683
Comarques Gironines 36,228 14,945 7,180 30,313 28,040 58,353
Camp de Tarragona 28,950 10,657 7,388 24,196 22,799 46,995
Terres de l'Ebre 10,512 4,752 2,952 8,735 9,481 18,216
Ponent 19,103 6,572 5,314 15,240 15,749 30,989
Comarques Centrals 23,751 6,686 4,352 17,169 17,620 34,789
Alt Pirineu i Aran 2,770 904 631 2,213 2,092 4,305
Penedès 23,563 7,972 5,611 18,360 18,786 37,146
Barcelona 294,962 113,573 82,259 234,149 256,645 490,794
Girona 36,600 15,124 7,263 30,648 28,339 58,987
Lleida 22,172 7,491 6,002 17,593 18,072 35,665
Tarragona 45,582 17,639 11,809 37,873 37,157 75,030
Source: Ministry of Social Rights.

Last update: May 24, 2023.

REGDIS

These statistics have a specific section with all the information available: Statistics on People with Disabilities (REGDIS).

Methodological note

Definition of concepts

Recognised disability
Certificate granted to those people with a disability that is equal to or higher than 33% of the threshold established by law. It indicates the diagnosis and degree of handicap expressed in percentage terms and issued by the evaluation and orientation teams (EVO) at care centres for disabled people (CAD) run by the Generalitat de Catalunya.

Methodological aspects

The Catalan social services system is the coordinated set of personal services, facilities, activities, economic benefits and of prevention, care and social promotion in Catalonia, which aims to ensure the participation of all citizens in the benefits of social life. Is specifically designed for individuals, families or groups who, by having difficulties in the development and integration into society, lack of personal autonomy, physical, mental or sensory disabilities, family problems or suffer social marginalization, are creditors of collective and caring effort.

The system is divided functionally into primary care social services and social services of specialized care, and is organized territorially in key areas of social services, sectors of county, regional and territorial areas of Catalonia, and in the following areas of action: care for family, childhood and adolescence; care for people with disabilities, old age care and treatment of drug addicts.

The statistics on the disabled population of Catalonia is the result of the operation of a database that feeds information recorded in the assessment and guidance services dependent of the Catalan Institute of Assistance and Social Services (ICASS).

The valuation of disability meets the regulation set by the Royal Decree 1971/1999 of December 23, on the procedure for recognition, declaration and classification of the degree of disability (BOE number 22 of January 26, 2000 ).

The aim of this provision is regulate the recognition of the degree of disability, establish new applicable scales, determine the competent bodies to make the aforementioned recognition and procedure to be followed, all with the purpose of the valuation and classification of the degree of disability affecting the person is uniform throughout the State, and ensure equal conditions for access of citizens to the benefits, economic rights and services given by public bodies.

The WHO international classification defines disability as any restriction or lack of ability of a human to perform an activity in the manner or within the range considered normal. Therefore, the severity of limitations for activities is the fundamental criterion used to develop the scales.

The official typological classification of disabilities is as follows: physical, sensory and mental. The typology exploited statistically encompasses the following groups: motor and non-motor physical, visual, auditory, mental and mentally ill. The tables include the 'no record', which are collected those encodings that cannot be included in any of these main groups.

Regarding the degree of disability ,is divided into three main groups. The first groups degrees of disability between 33% and 64%, which includes people with disabilities with a level of personal autonomy sufficiently important to social and labor insertion at least in a protected work system. The second group comprises degrees of disability between 65% and 74%. This block includes people who, generally speaking, have more difficulties to achieve full employment and social integration. The third group, with degrees of disability equal to or greater than 75%, recorded in most affected people who are likely to require highly specialized tools for social integration.

Unavailable information is represented using the symbol ":". When the value is lower than that of the minimum unit to be able to estimate the statistical operation or if it effects statistical confidentiality, the symbol used is "..".

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