DEFINITION
Total for all ages and sexes. Database compiled January 2004. Total of figures for:
- Blindness and low vision
- Blindness, both eyes
- Blindness, one eye, low vision other eye
- Low vision, both eyes
- Unqualified visual loss, both eyes
- population.
| Rank |
Countries
|
Amount
(top to bottom)
|
| #1 |
Cuba: |
0.264387 deaths per 1 million peo |
|
| #2 |
Nicaragua: |
0.182983 deaths per 1 million peo |
|
| #3 |
Israel: |
0.159312 deaths per 1 million peo |
|
| #4 |
El Salvador: |
0.149142 deaths per 1 million peo |
|
| #5 |
Sweden: |
0.111086 deaths per 1 million peo |
|
| #6 |
Canada: |
0.0914495 deaths per 1 million peo |
|
| #7 |
Korea, South: |
0.0822352 deaths per 1 million peo |
|
| #8 |
United States: |
0.0507213 deaths per 1 million peo |
|
| #9 |
Australia: |
0.049776 deaths per 1 million peo |
|
| #10 |
Japan: |
0.0156965 deaths per 1 million peo |
|
| #11 |
Germany: |
0.0121314 deaths per 1 million peo |
|
| #12 |
Mexico: |
0.00941593 deaths per 1 million peo |
|
| #13 |
Brazil: |
0.00537308 deaths per 1 million peo |
|
| |
Weighted average: |
0.1 deaths per 1 million peo |
|
DEFINITION: Total for all ages and sexes. Database compiled January 2004. Total of figures for:
- Blindness and low vision
- Blindness, both eyes
- Blindness, one eye, low vision other eye
- Low vision, both eyes
- Unqualified visual loss, both eyes
- population.