Table 2.

Crude and age-standardised prevalence (%) of blindness and MSVI, mild VI and presbyopia in 2015 in high-income countries and in Eastern and Central Europe (all ages); 80% uncertainty intervals are given in brackets

	Blind	MSVI	Mild VI	Presbyopia*
Crude prevalence
Males	0.24 (0.10–0.42)	1.94 (0.86–3.28)	1.93 (0.62–3.68)	–
Females	0.39 (0.16–0.68)	2.88 (1.29–4.84)	2.71 (0.92–5.04)	–
All	0.32 (0.13–0.55)	2.42 (1.08–4.08)	2.33 (0.77–4.38)	18.94 (5.59–35.22)
Age-standardised prevalence
Males	0.14 (0.06–0.24)	1.18 (0.51–2.00)	1.19 (0.37–2.29)	–
Females	0.15 (0.06–0.27)	1.34 (0.58–2.30)	1.33 (0.42–2.54)	–
All	0.15 (0.06–0.26)	1.27 (0.55–2.17)	1.27 (0.40–2.43)	18.58 (5.47–34.60)

*A gender breakdown for presbyopia is not presented due to data sparsity.

MSVI, moderate and severe vision impairment; VI, vision impairment.