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GBD Region Map & Estimates of Vision Loss

North Africa and Middle East

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 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
Afghanistan Algeria Bahrain Egypt Iran (Islamic Republic of) Iraq Jordan Kuwait Lebanon Libya Morocco Oman Palestine Qatar Saudi Arabia Sudan Syrian Arab Republic Tunisia Turkey United Arab Emirates Yemen

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
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, 2020

(all ages, males & females)

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

44 studies included in VLEG analysis from North Africa and Middle East

12

Studies with national coverage

32

Studies with subnational coverage

44

Studies reporting distance vision loss

0

Studies reporting near vision loss

34%

Studies using RAAB methodology

71%

Countries with at least one study

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