2024-09-26 from globalnews.ca

A new study is warning that children’s eye health around the world may be on the decline.

Nearly one in three were nearsighted in 2023 and that’s expected to rise in the next two decades.

The study, published Tuesday in the British Journal of Ophthalmology, analyzed the results of 276 studies that involved more than 5.4 million children from 50 countries across six continents.

According to the numbers, those with nearsightedness rose from 24 per cent in 1990 to almost 36 per cent as of last year. But projections by the study’s researchers showed the number could hit almost 40 per cent in 2050.

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