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Understand the key stories behind the data featured on the Vision Atlas and communicate the key messages with these digital resources.
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Eye Health: Why It Matters
IAPB Evidence Series
Global Productivity Losses Due to Avoidable Sight Loss
New research released on World Sight Day 2023 reveals the global league table of countries with the biggest potential economic boost from better eye care. The study, conducted by the International Agency for the Prevention of Blindness (IAPB) and Prof. Kevin Frick from Johns Hopkins, Van C. Lansingh and Kristen Eckert calculated the productivity costs of avoidable sight loss among people over 50. Countries with some of the biggest potential productivity gains include China ($96 billion), United States ($50 billion), India ($27 billion), Japan ($20 billion) and the United Kingdom ($12 billion).Magnitude of global vision loss
This 10-page PDF covers the key messages from the Vision Loss Expert Group's 2020 study "Trends in prevalence of blindness and distance and near vision impairment over 30 years" through images, charts and text summaries.Select this link to learn more about:
- Number of people living vision loss globally
- Projected burden of vision loss
- Distribution and inequalities in vision loss
The causes of vision loss
This 14-page PDF covers the key messages from the Vision Loss Expert Group's 2020 study "Causes of blindness and vision impairment in 2020 and trends over 30 years." through images, charts and text summaries.Select this link to learn more about:
- Global causes of blindness and vision impairment
- The number affected by each cause
- Change in causes of vision loss
- Inequalities in the causes of vision loss
Universal eye health: a global action plan 2014–2019 indicators
This 15-page PDF summarises progress with the national indicators set in "Universal eye health: a global action plan 2014–2019".Select this link to learn more about how different regions compare with:
- Number of eye care personnel
- Cataract surgical service delivery
- Eye health research
- National eye health committees, coordinators and plans.
Global and Region Snapshots
Global Snapshots offer a highly visual, 1-page summary of the key figures with vision loss and eye care service indicators at three different levels: global, GBD Super Region, and GBD Region.
If you would like to download all Snapshots at each level, please select “PDF” on the following tiles.
One-page and PowerPoint snapshots for individual GBD Regions and Super Regions are also available at the link below.
Global snapshot (1 page)
All GBD Super Region Snapshots (7 pages)
All Region Snapshots (21 pages)
Individual Super Region and Region files
Select this link to view PDF (1 page) and PowerPoint (8 slides) files for individual GBD Super Regions and GBD Regions.Presentations
Effective Coverage of Eye Care presentation
On World Sight Day 2022, the WHO launched the Report of the 2030 Targets on Effective Coverage of Eye Care, based on two publications in The Lancet Global Health.These publications present the first set of reference estimates of effective refractive error coverage and effective cataract surgical coverage – the two new ambitious global targets for 2030.
We have prepared a presentation explaining what the reference data in these publications means for 2030 In Sight.
Vision Atlas PowerPoint presentation
Featuring beautiful imagery and infographics, this downloadable PowerPoint presentation covers all the key narrative, messages and data presented in the Vision Atlas.Select this link to download the PowerPoint, which includes all the key sections of the Vision Atlas:
- Magnitude
- Inequality
- Causes
- Impact
- Solutions