Global Prevalence of Cognitive Disabilities by Functional Difficulty

World Bank data from the Disability Data Hub provides adjusted prevalence rates for persons with cognitive disabilities, defined as experiencing at least a lot of functional difficulty. The dataset covers global health and demographic metrics. It is published by the Disability Data Hub (DDH).

Use Cases

• Analyze trends in cognitive_disability prevalence across different countries and years.
• Model the relationship between cognitive_disability prevalence and other socioeconomic indicators.
• Benchmark national cognitive_disability rates against global or regional averages.

Strengths

• Data sourced from the authoritative World Bank and Disability Data Hub.
• Focuses on a standardized metric of functional difficulty for cross-country comparison.

Limitations

• Specific row count, column details, and temporal coverage are unknown.
• The 'adjusted prevalence' methodology may not be directly comparable with other surveys.

Provenance

Source

Disability Data Hub (DDH), hosted on World Bank platform.

Geography

Global