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Join IAPBGBD Super Region Map & Estimates of Vision Loss
Sub-Saharan Africa
In 2020 in the Sub-Saharan Africa GBD Super Region, there were an estimated 110 million people with vision loss. Of these, 5.1 million people were blind.
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 Super 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.