Proportion of injured athletes by impairment type for all injuries for athletes competing at the Rio 2016 Summer Paralympic Games
| Impairment type | Total number of injuries (percentage of total number of injuries) | Number of athletes with an injury | Proportion of injured athletes in each impairment type (%) |
| All | 510 (100%) | 411 | 100 |
| Limb deficiency (amputation, dysmelia, congenital deformity) | 154 (30.2%) | 141 | 32.0 |
| Visual impairment | 112 (22.0%) | 88 | 20.0 |
| Spinal cord injury | 103 (20.2%) | 81 | 18.4 |
| Central neurological injury (cerebral palsy, traumatic brain injury, stroke, other neurological impairment) | 82 (16.1%) | 75 | 17.0 |
| Other | 25 (4.9%) | 24 | 5.4 |
| Les autres (non-spinal polio myelitis, ankylosis, leg shortening, joint movement restriction, nerve injury resulting in local paralysis) | 17 (3.3%) | 16 | 3.6 |
| Intellectual impairment | 8 (1.6%) | 7 | 1.6 |
| Unknown | 5 (1.0%) | 5 | 1.1 |
| Short stature | 4 (0.8%) | 4 | 0.9 |