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. 2021 Feb 16;9(4):e489–e551. doi: 10.1016/S2214-109X(20)30488-5

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© 2021 The Author(s). Published by Elsevier Ltd. This is an Open Access article under the CC BY 4.0 license

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Bubble chart plotting excess number of women with moderate and severe vision impairment against excess number of women with blindness. East Asia is the region with the greatest excess of women with both blindness and moderate and severe vision impairment. Australasia is the region with the lowest. — Women with blindness and MSVI

Excess number of women over men, in adults (≥50 years). Data are plotted for the 21 Global Burden of Disease regions using a log scale. Size of the circle represents the total number of adults with blindness and MSVI in that region. Oceania has less than 1000 excess women with MSVI and was not plotted on this figure. Data available in appendix 1 (p 33), from VLEG–GBD.¹ MSVI=moderate and severe vision impairment.