In 1998, the Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics estimated that the 13,000,000 people with disabilities in Bangladesh had the following disabilities:

• Visual 31%
• Physical 28%
• Hearing and speech 28%
• Leprosy and goiters 8%
• Mental 5%

The Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics also found that the major causes of disability in Bangladesh are congenital, from unknown causes, caused by wrong treatment or maltreatment, from accidents or disease, resulting from malnutrition or poverty and compounded by a lack of awareness about health and causes of disability.