Facts And FiguresAbout Blindness and Visual Impairment
- Every 5 seconds, someone in the world goes blind.
- An estimated number of 1.4 million children are blind.
- Around 120 million people are visually impaired because of uncorrected refractive errors.
- Globally,285 million people are visually impaired, of whom 39 million are blind.
- 28% of people living with moderate and severe visual impairment are in the working years.
- Every minute a child goes blind in this world.
- An estimated 82 % of all people with blindness are over 50 years old.
- Retinal diseases are the main causes of visual impairment in upper-middle- and high-income countries.
- 90% of visually impaired people live in low- and middle-income countries.
- 90% of visually impaired people live in low- and middle-income countries.
