Registered blindness in Kuwait - 15 years of dynamic changes.

Purpose: Incidence rate of registered blindness and low vision (IR) among the Kuwaitis from 2005 to 2014 and longitudinal changes since 2000.

Methods: Data of newly certified Kuwaitis with best-corrected visual acuity 0.1 or less or visual field constriction to 20 ° or less in their better eye, aggregated in intervals from 2005 to 2009 and 2010 to 2014 and presented as IR per 100 000 person years of observation by age, gender, severity and leading cause.