The EFE has revealed this figure in a story that contained the exact figure: 23.6 million Spanish using glasses, contact lenses or both. This percentage is below the European average (70%).

The data come from the White Paper on Vision 2009, a 200-page document that has been presented in Barcelona yesterday and includes highlights optical sector employs over 35,000 people.

The vision industry turnover last year 2.037 million euros, with an overall decrease of 4.5%. Bajan sunglasses (-7.05%) and prescription eyewear or mounted (-6.2%) while climbing (9.5%, from 190 to 208 million euros). According to the optical, the crisis has led many families are extending the life of your eyeglasses above

Some other interesting facts: 95% of the Spanish believed that sight is the sense most valuable asset we have 77% say it is the first of which fears losing physical abilities, followed by physical mobility, memory and hearing. 20% never visited an ophthalmologist to perform a visual The percentage is 49% when it tries to visit an optician-optometrist. 74% of the population expected to notice any visual problem before deciding to visit a specialist. When you see the problem, 66% take up to three months in going to graduate in sight. More than half of Spanish children aged between 6 and 9 years has never passed a vision screening. Three out of four academic failure may be related to poor vision.