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Previous meta-analysis evidence shows that children (aged 0–18 years) with disabilities experience high amounts of violence. During the past decade, there has been a substantial increase in the volume of available data, and we therefore aimed to update the evidence and provide a current global estimate of violence against children with disabilities.

For this systematic review and meta-analysis, we searched 18 English-language international databases for observational studies published in English or Chinese between Aug 17, 2010, and Sept 16, 2020, and three Chinese databases for studies published from database inception to Sept 16, 2020. We used search terms structured around the concepts of disability, child, and violence—defining violence as physical, emotional, or sexual violence, or neglect, and considering disability as physical, mental, intellectual, and sensory impairments, and …