11.5% of the country's population has a disability according to the head of the Secretariat of the Committee for Coordination and Supervision of the Implementation of the Law on the Protection of the Rights of the Disabled. It is estimated that the population of people with disabilities in Iran is about 9.8 million, equal to 11.5% of the country's population, and about 1.6 million of them are covered by the welfare organization in the country.