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GBD Region Map & Estimates of Vision Loss

North Africa and Middle East

In 2020 in North Africa and Middle East, there were an estimated 54 million people with vision loss. Of these, 3.1 million people were blind.

North Africa and Middle East

  • Number of countries
    21
  • Population (2020)
    621 million
  • Blindness (crude)
    0.50%
  • All vision loss (crude)
    8.50%
  • Proportion who are female
    52%
  • Gender ratio (age-std)
    1.09

Breakdown of vision loss chart

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

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  • 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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Crude prevalence of vision loss, 2020

(all ages, males & females)

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