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| A Tibetan Buddhist monk at a Buddhist laymen lodge in China on October 30. Reuters/Damir Sagolj |
22 July 2016
A major Chinese health research center recently published a white paper on the country's visual health.
The findings weren't great.
According to a recent Nomura research report, the main two takeaways from the paper, from Peking University's China Center for Health Development, were that the prevalence of visual problems in China is far above the global average and that the problem is quickly getting worse.
In 2012, about 500 million people in China had an uncorrected visual defect. Of those, 450 million had myopia, or nearsightedness. That's about a third of the country's population. And the report forecasts that barring policy interventions, about 700 million people, or roughly half of the population, will have myopia by 2020.
In Taiwan, the situation is even worse. More than half the country's population, about 11.5 million people, are nearsighted.
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A major Chinese health research center recently published a white paper on the country's visual health.
The findings weren't great.
According to a recent Nomura research report, the main two takeaways from the paper, from Peking University's China Center for Health Development, were that the prevalence of visual problems in China is far above the global average and that the problem is quickly getting worse.
In 2012, about 500 million people in China had an uncorrected visual defect. Of those, 450 million had myopia, or nearsightedness. That's about a third of the country's population. And the report forecasts that barring policy interventions, about 700 million people, or roughly half of the population, will have myopia by 2020.
In Taiwan, the situation is even worse. More than half the country's population, about 11.5 million people, are nearsighted.
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