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What percentage of the population is legally blind?
State Distribution (2016)
| State | Number |
|---|---|
| Maine | 30,800 |
| Maryland | 111,500 |
| Massachusetts | 129,800 |
| Michigan | 223,500 |
What percentage of people have eyesight?
Study Finds Most Americans Have Good Vision, But 14 Million Are Visually Impaired
| Age (years) | Percent of people with visual impairment that CAN be corrected with glasses/contact lenses |
|---|---|
| 12-19 years | 93.1% |
| 40-59 years | 94.4% |
| 60+ years | 59.5% |
How many people suffer from retinal disease?
5 million people around the world have retinitis pigmentosa. While the number sounds big, the planet’s total population is 7.53 billion people.
How many babies are born blind every year?
An estimated 500 000 children become blind each year, but in developing countries up to 60% are thought to die within a year of becoming blind. Almost half of all blindness in children—particularly those in the poorest communities3—is due to avoidable causes that are amenable to cost effective interventions.
Do glasses give you 20 20 vision?
The simple answer is that eyeglasses, contact lenses or laser eye surgery can correct your vision to 20/20.
What is best eye disease?
Best disease is an eye condition that affects a tiny part of the retina at the back of your eye, called the macula. Best disease causes problems with your central vision but does not lead to total loss of sight and is not painful.
What percentage of population has retinal detachment?
Although 6% of the general population are thought to have retinal breaks, most of these are asymptomatic benign atrophic holes, which are without accompanying pathology and do not lead to retinal detachment. The annual incidence is approximately one in 10,000 or about 1 in 300 over a lifetime.