• Estimated 40 million blind people around the world
• Different data estimate the Chinese blind population between 6 and 12 million
• 24,000 eye doctors in China, 80% in urban hospitals
• 1 eye doctor per 200,000 Chinese
• 95% of blind people live in rural areas
• 72% of blindness in China is due to congenital cataract, which is avoidable
• 400,000 people become cataract blind in China each year
• China's blind population equates to 20% of the world's blind population
• There are more blind people in China than Norwegian, Finish or Danish people in the world

These data were gathered from websites from the Hollows Foundation, Orbis Foundation, the WHO, Wikipedia and estimates from the Bethel China Foundation and do not represent official data, rather approximative numbers, quantity and ratio