Bringing the conversation closer home, this topic looks at disability numbers in India. The 2011 Census recorded about 2.68 crore persons with disabilities, close to 2.21 percent of the population. However this number is widely seen as an undercount, since the RPwD Act of 2016 added many new disability categories after the census was done. Global estimates suggest the real figure in India is likely much closer to the worldwide average of 16 percent, showing that official data often lags behind real life.