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The numbers recovered in 2021, and in 2022, a new top notation was seen (<jats:italic>n<\/jats:italic>\u2009=\u2009149\u2009952). On a national level, the patients were younger (\u22120.46\u2009years, <jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic>\u2009&lt;\u20090.001), with a larger proportion of less difficult cases (<jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic>\u2009&lt;\u20090.001) and the proportion of males was higher (<jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic>\u2009&lt;\u20090.001) during the pandemic, but all these variables also differed substantially between different regions and clinics.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Conclusion<\/jats:title><jats:p>A national registry with high coverage can map the consequences of an event disrupting elective surgery in detail. During the COVID\u201019 pandemic, the impact on Swedish cataract surgery varied largely between different regions, clinics, and healthcare providers, leading to inequality in the availability of surgery. These differences likely owed to variations in healthcare policy approaches in different parts of the country. The present study shows that outcomes at one clinic or region cannot be extrapolated to larger regions under these circumstances. 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