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. 2021 Apr 26;35:100852. doi: 10.1016/j.eclinm.2021.100852

Table 2.

Relative reduction in employment for people with vision loss (%).

GBD Super regions (bold) and regions Relative reduction in employment among people with vision loss (%)
High Income 32.12
 High-income Asia Pacific 26.70
 Australasia 32.44
 Western Europe 20.58
 Southern Latin America No data
 High-income North America 43.46
Central Europe, Eastern Europe, and Central Asia 22.50
 Central Asia 22.50
 Central Europe 22.50
 Eastern Europe 22.50
Latin America and Caribbean No data
 Caribbean No data
 Andean Latin America No data
 Central Latin America No data
 Tropical Latin America No data
North Africa and Middle East No data
South Asia No data
Southeast Asia, East Asia, and Oceania No data
 Southeast Asia No data
 East Asia No data
 Oceania No data
Sub-Saharan Africa 28.85
 Central Sub-Saharan Africa No data
 Eastern Sub-Saharan Africa No data
 Southern Sub-Saharan Africa No data
 Western Sub-Saharan Africa 28.85
Average 30.23
Number of countries with data 15a
a

Relative reduction in employment data was obtained from a literature search. We identified 11 studies [16], [17], [18], [19], [20], [21], [22], [23], [24], [25], [26] and 5 reportsce: [27], [28], [29], [30], [31] that provided employment reduction data for 15 countries and WHO Mortality Stratum regions, which we categorised into 8 GBD regions and 3 super regions