However, the Eden Handicapped Foundation has produced a different estimate based on the ratio of handicapped people to total population in developing countries (five per hundred), saying there are about 900,000 to 1,000,000 in Taiwan.
伊甸殘障福利基金會則以一九八○年聯合國衛生組織所公佈開發中國家殘障人口比率（約佔人口總數的百分之五）來估算，台灣殘障人數應在八十萬到一百萬之間。