Disability

People with disability in Australia brings together information from a range of national data sources to contribute to a greater understanding about disability in Australia. Some people with disability face challenges routinely and actively participating in everyday life areas (such as employment) and are more likely to experience poor health, discrimination and violence than those without disability.

Highlights from this report are presented in People with disability in Australia 2020: in brief.

People using specialist disability services in Australia had a mortality rate 4.7 times as high as the general population. Among service users, the rates and causes of death varied by type of disability, age and sex. The rate of potentially avoidable deaths was 3.6 times as high for service users compared with the general population, with coronary heart disease and suicide being the leading causes of deaths deemed potentially avoidable.