This year’s theme aligns with part of the 2030 agenda pledges to ‘leave no one behind’.
The Department for Community Development says today’s world population is over 7 billion, and approximately 15 percent live with some form of disability, where 80 percent of them live in developing nations.
In PNG, the estimates of people living with disabilities are 1.2 million and as life expectancy in general increases, persons with disabilities who survive in old age will also increase.
