Many workers with disabilities have a hard time finding jobs

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Worldwide, around a billion people live with a disability. Of these, approximately 470 million are of working age. Although many people with disabilities are successfully employed and fully integrated into society, as a group they still suffer a disproportionate level of poverty and unemployment.

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00:00 In Germany, 3 million people have a severe disability,

00:05 and only half of those between 16 and 65 have a regular job.

00:10 That's representative of the average employment rate of people with disabilities in the EU,

00:16 where one in two are employed.

00:19 The rates are even lower in other regions.

00:22 It's about a quarter in Asia-Pacific,

00:24 and the figure falls further in the US and Latin America.

00:28 Despite efforts to include more people with disabilities in the former labour market

00:33 and rising levels of employment rates worldwide,

00:36 people with disabilities continue to face widespread discrimination and marginalization.

00:42 Their exclusion from the former labour market

00:45 deprives the world of an estimated 1.4 to 1.9 trillion US dollars in lost GDP every year,

00:53 according to the International Labour Organization.

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