The United Nations has estimated that about 39 million people are blind globally.
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39 million people blind globally – UN
Globally, it is estimated that approximately 1.3 billion people live with some form of vision impairment.
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A statement to mark the first-ever official World Braille Day, aimed to underscore the importance of written language for human rights.
"Around the world, 39 million people are blind, and another 253 million have some sort of vision impairment.
"For them, Braille provides a tactical representation of alphabetic and numerical symbols so blind and partially-sighted people are able to read the same books and periodicals printed as are available in standard text form," it said.
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The UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities cites Braille as a means of communication; and regards it as essential in education, freedom of expression and opinion, access to information and social inclusion for those who use it.
To foster more accessible and disability-inclusive societies, the UN launched its first-ever flagship report on disability and development in 2018.
The report coincided with the International Day for Persons with Disabilities on which UN Secretary-General António Guterres urged the international community to take part in filling inclusion gaps.
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