Oman

Population Statistics

3,286,936

Total Population

493,040

Population with a disability

according to World Health Organization’s 15% estimate

Election Dates

06 January 2009

Ratified the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities


Basic Law of the Sultanate of Oman (1996, last amended 2011))

Updated: June 2015

Article 12 states:

…The State guarantees aid for the Citizen and his family in cases of emergency, sickness, disability, and old age according to the social security scheme…

 

Article 17 states:

All Citizens are equal before the Law and share the same public rights and duties. There shall be no discrimination amongst them on the ground of gender, origin, color, language, religion, sect, domicile or social status.

 

Excerpts from the Basic Law of the Sultanate of Oman (1996, last amended 2011)