
Nearly Half Of The Global Population May Be Nearsighted By 2050, Researchers Say
February 2016 — Researchers at the Brien Holden Vision Institute in Sydney, Australia, recently pored over data from 145 studies and analyzed the prevalence of myopia and high myopia among 2.1 million study participants. The group also used data published since 1995 to estimate trends from 2000 to 2050.
What they found was alarming.