Every minute a child goes blind somewhere in the world. India has an estimated 320,000 blind children, highest in the world. The number of blind children in the world was 1.5 million in 1990, which reduced to 1.14 million in 2015.1 Childhood blindness is the second largest cause of blind-person years, followed by cataract. Globally, approximately 70 million blind person years are caused by childhood blindness. Approximately 500 000 children become blind every year and about half of them die within one or two years of becoming blind.
Every minute a child goes blind somewhere in the world. India has an estimated 320,000 blind children, highest in the world. The number of blind children in the world was 1.5 million in 1990, which reduced to 1.14 million in 2015.1 Childhood blindness is the second largest cause of blind-person years, followed by cataract. Globally, approximately 70 million blind person years are caused by childhood blindness. Approximately 500 000 children become blind every year and about half of them die within one or two years of becoming blind.
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