Approximated figures.
WHO definitions of vision loss severity:
"The International Classification of Diseases 11 (2018) classifies vision impairment into two groups, distance and near presenting vision impairment.
Distance vision impairment:
Mild – presenting visual acuity worse than 6/12
Moderate – presenting visual acuity worse than 6/18
Severe – presenting visual acuity worse than 6/60
Blindness – presenting visual acuity worse than 3/60
Near vision impairment:
Presenting near visual acuity worse than N6 or M.08 with existing correction."
Countries included as Central Europe: Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czechia, Hungary, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Poland, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia.
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Vision impairments in Central Europe 2020, by cause
In 2020, there were approximately *** million people in the Central European region that were affected with moderate-severe vision loss as a result of refractive disorders. On the other hand, glaucoma caused blindness for almost ** thousand people, and cataracts was the cause of blindness for around ** thousand individuals.
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