Total Population
Population with a disability
according to World Health Organization’s 15% estimate2024
Puerto Rico has not yet signed the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
Section 6.003 states:
Any citizen of the United States of America and of Puerto Rico who is legally domiciled in the Island’s jurisdiction and who, by the date of a scheduled election event, has attained the age of eighteen (18) years, is duly qualified prior to said election event, and has not been declared mentally incompetent by a Court of Law shall be a voter in Puerto Rico.
Article 2, section 2 states:
The laws shall guarantee the expression of the will of the people by means of equal, direct and secret universal suffrage and shall protect the citizen against any coercion in the exercise of the electoral franchise.
Article 6, section 4 states:
…Every person over twenty-one years of age shall be entitled to vote if he fulfills the other conditions determined by law. No person shall be deprived of the right to vote because he does not know how to read or write or does not own property…