ALEXANDRIA, Va.—The total U.S. market for vision care products and services was up in all categories for the twelve-month period ending June 2015, according to the latest statistics available from The Vision Council’s VisionWatch report. As the chart indicates, lenses grew by the largest percentage (up 8.5 percent), followed by over-the-counter readers (up 6.2 percent) and frames (up 5.7 percent).
Total U.S. Optical Market through Optical Retail Locations
Vision care products and services in millions of dollars for twelve-month period ending June 2015
Source: June 2015 VisionWatch, the large scale continuous research study conducted by The Vision Council with
approximately 110,000 respondents. Includes dollars spent at all optical locations on the sale of either spectacle
lenses (regular Rx and Rx sun), frames, sunglasses (plano only), over-the-counter readers, or revenue earned from
refractive surgery or eye examinations. This number does not include sunglass clips and reflects the dollars spent
only by U.S. residents 18 and older. Optical retail includes leased optical spaces in department stores, mass
merchandisers with optical locations, optical chains, and independents with optical locations.