Country	No. of Ophthalmologists	Rate of Blindness per 1,000 population (%)	Percent of Ophthalmologists Performing Cataracts Surgery  %	Estimated No. of Cataracts Surgeries Per year
Algeria	800	25	85	15,000
Bahrain	n/a	-	-	-
Comoros	na/	-	-	-
Djibouti	n/a	-	-	-
Egypt	n/a	-	-	-
Iraq	n/a	-	-	-
Jordan	160	-	-	5,000
Kuwait	n/a	-	-	-
Lebanon	n/a	-	-	-
Libyan Arab Jamahiriya	n/a	-	-	-
Mauritania	-	-	-	-
Morocco	508	-	100	10-15,000
Oman	n/a	-	-	-
Palestine	n/a	-	-	-
Qatar	n/a	-	-	-
Saudi Arabia	620	-	35	15-18,000
Somalia	n/a	-	-	-
Sudan	n/a	-	-	-
Syrian Arab Republic	600	-	95	15-18,000
Tunisia	n/a	-	-	-
United Arab Emirates	170	-	-	-
Yemen	n/a	-	-	-