People with disabilities are more frequently and more severely affected by situations of poverty and extreme poverty. They are also one of the population groups most often affected by situations of structural poverty.
The few available statistics show that one of every five poor people is a person with a disability. This means that people with disabilities experience approximately double the incidence rate of poverty as compared to the general population. Additionally, the situation of poverty affected by developing countries is directly related to the fact that 80% of people with disabilities of the world live in the Global South.
Given these alarming figures it is easy to extrapolate that the current economic crisis has worsened the structural problems of poverty and extreme poverty affecting people with disabilities.