<Private Enterprises> (whose statutory employment rate (SER) is 2.3%.)

• Both the number of persons with disabilities employed and the actual employment rate reached record highs.

• The number of persons with disabilities in employment was 597,786, increasing 3.4 percentage points, or 19,494 more people employed than the previous year.
• The actual employment rate was 2.20%, increasing 0.05 percentage points from the previous year.

• 47.0% of companies achieved the statutory employment rate, which is 1.6 percentage points lower than the previous year.

<Public Agencies> (SER 2.6%; 2.5% for boards of education in prefectures, etc.)     

※ Values in parentheses are those of the previous year.

• The number of people with disabilities in employment was higher than the previous year in all levels.

• National level: 9,605.0 (9,336.0) persons with disabilities employed.

Actual employment rate: 2.83% (2.83%)

• Prefectures: 11,143.5 (9,699.5) persons with disabilities employed.

Actual employment rate: 2.81% (2.73%)

• Municipal level: 33,369.5 (31,424.0) persons with disabilities employed.

Actual employment rate: 2.51% (2.41%)

• Board of Education: 16,106.5 (14,956.0) persons with disabilities employed.

Actual employment rate: 2.21% (2.05%)

<Independent Administrative Agencies, etc.> (SER 2.6%)

• Both the number of persons with disabilities employed and the actual employment rate were higher than the previous year.

• The number of disabled persons employed was 12,244.5 (11,759.5)

Actual employment rate was 2.69% (2.64%).