Access For All

Some facts

Official estimates put the number of Europeans with disabilities at 10% – or 37 million in the EU and 80 million in Greater Europe. Giving an accurate figure is hard, since the term “disability” covers a very wide range of situations, but six out of ten EU nationals say that their immediate or less immediate circle includes someone who has a disability or is an invalid, and one in four has such a person in his/her family. Over 5% of EU nationals say that have a disability themselves, but one in four puts the figure for Europe at 20%. – “Eurobarometer” survey, carried out in May 2001