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ABSTRACT Purpose To describe the demography, clinical settings and outcomes in 2071 patients undergoing evisceration across a multi-tier ophthalmology hospital network and comparison of results with the global scenario of clinical settings for evisceration. Methods An analysis of 2071 patients undergoing evisceration and implant between 2013 and 2019. Results The mean age at surgery was 39 ± 22 years. Children constituted 303(15%) of the cases. The four leading indications for surgery included painful blind eye in 760(37%), phthisis bulbi in 552(27%), staphyloma in 215(10%) and open globe injury in 195(9%) patients. The clinical settings encountered were trauma in 852(41%), ocular infection in 714(34%), glaucoma in 198(10%), post ocular surgery in 146(7%), congenital in 95(5%) and uveitis in 21(1%). Trauma and infection remained the commonest clinical settings in the urban (843,75%), rural (622,77%) and metropolitan (101,71%) areas. Decade wise distribution suggested trauma to be the commonest clinical setting in the first 4 decades and infection in the next 6 decades. The mean follow-up period was 351 ± 386 days (median 194). While trauma remained one of the commonest clinical setting in both the developed and the developing economies, painful blind eye and intractable glaucoma were other common clinical settings in the developed economies and infection was one of the leading clinical setting in the developing economies. Conclusion Most patients undergoing evisceration are young. The commonest indications for surgery include painful blind eye and phthisis bulbi. Trauma and infection remain the commonest clinical settings for evisceration in developed and developing economies.