Percent of Population Aged 16 and Older Reporting Limitations in General Activities: 29.1%

Source: Statistics on Persons with Disabilities, Master tables concerning EU 2020: year 2018, Prepared for the European Disability Expertise (EDE) By Stefanos Grammenos (in collaboration with Mark Priestley), Sept. 11, 2020.

“Self-reported unmet needs for medical examinations from the Eurostat Health database are shown in table 15. The group with unmet needs for medical examinations is significantly larger for people with disabilities, and especially with severe disabilities. The figures for Denmark are significantly lower than the EU27 average, but for the group with severe disability the Danish figure is still above 4%.”

Source: Steen Bengtsson, European Semester 2020-2021 country fiche on disability equality: Denmark, Luxembourg: Publications Office of the European Union, 2021.

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