More than a third of children around the world were nearsighted in 2023, and this proportion will rise to almost 40% in 2050, according to new research.
Nearsightedness, or myopia, refers to when closer objects are clear, but distant objects are blurry. There has been a significant rise in the prevalence of myopia among children and adolescents in the past 30 years – from 24% in 1990 to almost 36% in 2023 – according to the paper, published in the British Journal of Ophthalmology on Tuesday. Researchers from Sun Yat-sen University in Guangzhou, China, reached their findings by analyzing the results of 276 studies involving more than 5.
The researchers emphasized that younger children were more vulnerable to environmental factors than adults, saying “this is particularly significant for pre-school children, as they are in a critical period of visual development characterised by high plasticity.” Looking ahead, researchers forecast that the prevalence of myopia will continue to increase among children and adolescents, reaching 36.6% in 2040 and 39.8% in 2050.
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