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Dia Mundial de La Vision 2022

Eye health is essential for achieving the Sustainable Development Goals. It promotes inclusive economic growth and reduces inequality. Over half the global population is expected to have a vision impairment by 2050 unless more is invested in eye care services. Poor vision disproportionately affects women, the elderly, the poor, and those in developing countries, and costs the global economy over $400 billion annually in lost productivity.

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Dia Mundial de La Vision 2022

Eye health is essential for achieving the Sustainable Development Goals. It promotes inclusive economic growth and reduces inequality. Over half the global population is expected to have a vision impairment by 2050 unless more is invested in eye care services. Poor vision disproportionately affects women, the elderly, the poor, and those in developing countries, and costs the global economy over $400 billion annually in lost productivity.

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Eye Health: Why it matters

Good vision and eye health unlocks people’s potential to:


Eye health is
essential for
achieving the
Sustainable
Development
Goals
Get an education Earn a living Maintain Well-being

55% 90
have vision loss as they
of people with vision loss
are living with don’t have access to eye
are women and girls
vision loss care services
because they
do not have access
to basic
eye care services Vision loss
costs the global economy

$411billion
per annum in productivity losses

Did you know?

Almost everyone
Half the global will need access to
population eyecare services
[4.8 billion]
is set to have a
during their lifetime
vision Unless there is a

90%
impairment significant investment,
by 2050 eye care services are
of all vision loss is unlikely to cope with
preventable or treatable future needs.

Image credits: 1. Neil Oakshott (Operation Eyesight); 2. Mansour Mohsen; 3. Ellen Crystal (Seva Canada)
Eye health is essential for achieving the
Sustainable Development Goals

Women and girls more likely to have


Poverty is both a cause and a
vision loss and experience additional
consequence of poor eye health
barriers to eye care services

of vision loss is in low- and


Overall, women are
middle-income countries 12% more likely
with the poor and extreme poor to have vision loss than men
among the furthest left behind

Good eye health and vision promotes


inclusive economic growth, employment
and improved living standards
Improved eye health can
increase household income
which in turn reduces hunger

Free high quality cataract surgery


can increase household income:
Providing glasses
of household incomes can increase Cataract surgery can
moved up an income bracket workplace increase household per
productivity by capita expenditure by

22% 88%
Eye health is key to ensuring
good health, mental health and
wellbeing.
Poor eye health is driven
by inequality

Poor eye health increases


the risk of mortality Women, older people, persons with

up to 2.6 times
disabilities, indigenous peoples, refugees and
internally displaced persons and migrants
are among those most affected

Eye health has positive impact on


73% of people with vision loss
are over the age of 50
school enrolment, educational
attainment and learning

Eye health is critical to reducing


road traffic deaths and injuries

Glasses can reduce the Children with vision loss are


Unoperated cataract can
odds of failing a class 2-5 times less likely increase the chance of a
by 44% to be in formal education motor vehicle accident by

2.5 times
in low- and middle-income
countries

To find out more about eye health and the Sustainable Development Goals, visit: https://www.iapb.org/learn/vision-atlas/impact-and-economics/
Source: VLEG/GBD 2020 model, accessed via IAPB Vision Atlas and The Lancet Global Health Commission on Global Eye Health

The Vision Atlas is a free knowledge resource for eye health thanks to the support from
Allergan an Abbvie company, Bayer, Seva Foundation, Sightsavers, CBM and The Fred Hollows Foundation.

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