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Brazil Redraws the Line

Brazil's 2022 census counts about 1 in 14 people as disabled — 7.3%. The same country reported 24% in 2010. Nothing changed but the question: a switch to the international Washington Group standard.

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Brazil's disability rate fell from 24% to 7.3% in twelve years. Nobody got healthier — the census switched to the stricter international standard. Definitions, not bodies, moved the number.

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