The WHO 2019 report on vision estimates that 36 million people in the world are blind and another 217 million have moderate to severe visual impairment.The International Agency for the Prevention of Blindness states that 1.1 billion of the world’s 8 billion people suffer from visual impairment.
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Lindstrom’s Perspective
July 16, 2026
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