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

Figure 8.

Two bar charts illustrating the proportion of blindness and moderate and severe vision impairment resulting from the five leading causes (plus all other causes combined) by Global Burden of Disease region. Cataract is shown to cause the highest proportion of blindness globally, and uncorrected refractive error the highest proportion of moderate and severe vision impairment.

Causes of vision impairment by Global Burden of Disease region

(A) Blindness and (B) moderate and severe vision impairment attributable to the five leading causes of vision impairment and other conditions (combined), all ages. Data are presented for the 21 Global Burden of Disease regions. Data from VLEG–GBD.131