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More than 1.1 billion people worldwide can’t see clearly. Despite vision being a fundamental aspect of daily life, eye care remains remarkably deprioritized, attracting only 0.2% of foreign aid. In 2021, the Seva Foundation engaged Mettalytics to build the economic case for eye care.
We quickly realized that we were making the wrong arguments to the wrong decision-makers. Eye care is delivered by health ministries and having myopia just isn’t as big a health problem as infectious pathogens, cancer or cardiovascular disease.
$410B
Global annual productivity lost due to sight loss.
Sight loss by gender and region
These modelled data from Vision Loss Expert Group (VLEG) provide global and regional estimates of different levels of sight loss for males and females (all ages).
Filter by region and measure to examine geographical variations and hover over chart segments to view the measure for each level of sight loss.
We quickly realized that we were making the wrong arguments to the wrong decision-makers. Eye care is delivered by health ministries and having myopia just isn’t as big a health problem as infectious pathogens, cancer or cardiovascular disease.
$410B
Global annual productivity lost due to sight loss.
Sight loss by gender and region
These modelled data from Vision Loss Expert Group (VLEG) provide global and regional estimates of different levels of sight loss for males and females (all ages).
Filter by region and measure to examine geographical variations and hover over chart segments to view the measure for each level of sight loss.
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