At an unprecedented time in history, with a rapidly ageing global population and a burgeoning diabetes epidemic, the Diabetic Retinopathy (DR) Barometer Study represents a body of work supported by thousands of adults with diabetes, health care professionals from many disciplines and hundreds of organisations and agencies working in the field of ageing, diabetes and eye health. The Global Report brings together the key findings of the 41-country DR Barometer Study. Comprising qualitative and quantitative evidence of, and outcomes for, adults living with diabetes, who find themselves at risk of developing eye complications.