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.
In Central Europe in 2020, over *** million adults aged between 70 and 79 years were affected with near vision impairment, while around *** thousand individuals in this age group had moderate-sever vision loss. Furthermore, approximately *** million individuals aged 60 to 69 years of age in Central Europe were also suffered from near vision impairment.
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