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GBD Region Map & Estimates of Vision Loss

High-income North America

Andean Latin AmericaAustralasiaCaribbeanCentral AsiaCentral EuropeCentral Latin AmericaCentral Sub-Saharan AfricaEast AsiaEastern EuropeEastern Sub-Saharan AfricaHigh-income Asia PacificHigh-income North AmericaNorth Africa and Middle EastOceaniaSouth AsiaSoutheast AsiaSouthern Latin AmericaSouthern Sub-Saharan AfricaTropical Latin AmericaWestern EuropeWestern Sub-Saharan Africa

In 2020 in High-income North America, there were an estimated 18 million people with vision loss. Of these, 710,000 people were blind.

High-income North America

  • Number of countries
    3
  • Population (2020)
    369 million
  • Blindness (crude)
    0.20%
  • All vision loss (crude)
    5.00%
  • Proportion who are female
    55%
  • Gender ratio (age-std)
    1.02
Canada United States of America

Breakdown of vision loss chart

If you would like to explore these data in different ways, you can select:

  • Location: compare up to three different GBD Regions.
  • Time: look at trends in the data between 1990 and 2020.
  • Age: look at vision loss in 10 year intervals from 50 to 90+.
  • Cause: look at how different eye conditions cause distance vision loss. Cause data default to adults 50+ as most data is from this group.

You can then select the location, year, vision loss measure, age and gender to explore vision loss predicted by the VLEG/GBD 2020 model.

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Andean Latin America Australasia Caribbean Central Asia Central Europe Central Latin America Central Sub-Saharan Africa East Asia Eastern Europe Eastern Sub-Saharan Africa High-income Asia Pacific High-income North America North Africa and Middle East Oceania South Asia Southeast Asia Southern Latin America Southern Sub-Saharan Africa Tropical Latin America Western Europe Western Sub-Saharan Africa
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Type of vision impairment Cause

Crude prevalence of vision loss in High-income North America, South Asia, North Africa and Middle East, 2020

(all ages, males & females)

Source: Data from VLEG/GBD 2020 model, accessed via the IAPB Vision Atlas

12 studies included in VLEG analysis from High-income North America

5

Studies with national coverage

7

Studies with subnational coverage

11

Studies reporting distance vision loss

6

Studies reporting near vision loss

0%

Studies using RAAB methodology

33%

Countries with at least one study

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