Overview

People with disability interact with every aspect of social policy and programs in Australia. They access both specialist and mainstream services across a wide variety of areas. Many also receive support through informal carers.

More reports and statistics on disability services can be found under Disability.

Latest findings

In 2016–17, about 331,000 people used services under the National Disability Agreement (NDA) About 2 in 5 NDA service users had an intellectual or learning disability (43%) Almost one-third of NDA service users aged 15 and over were not in the labour force (30%) Males were 4 times as likely as females to have autism 43,500 NDA service users had autism About 1 in 11 (9%) NDA service users transitioned to the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) during the year 164,000 Australians had autism in 2015 Most NDA service users who transitioned to the NDIS had an intellectual or learning primary disability (71%) 83% of Australians with autism were aged under 25 Almost 4 in 5 NDA service users with autism were aged under 25

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