Total Population
Population with a disability
according to World Health Organization’s 15% estimateRatified the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
Article 51, subsections 1 and 2 state:
(1) Every person with a disability who has attained the age of eighteen years and above shall be entitled to enjoy and exercise political rights and opportunity as any other citizen without any form of discrimination.
(2) Subject to subsection (1), a person with a disability shall have a right to vote, hold public office and otherwise participate in the political rights and opportunity as any other citizen without any form of discrimination.
Article 5, subsection 1 states:
Every citizen of the United Republic who has attained the age of eighteen years is entitled to vote in any election held in Tanzania…