Research Article
Prevalence of Myopia among Children Attending Pediatrics Ophthalmology Clinic at Ohud Hospital, Medina, Saudi Arabia
Table 6
Prevalence of myopia in different regions worldwide.
| | Country | Sample size | Studied age group (years) | Prevalence of myopia (%) |
| | Saudi Arabia-Qassim (Aldebasi Yousef H) | 5176 | 6–13 | 5.8% | | Saudi Arabia-Riyadh (Al-Rowaily Mohammad A) | 1319 | 4–8 | 2.5% | | Nigeria-Aba (Atowa UC et al.) | 1197 | 8–15 | 2.7% | | Macedonia-Tetovo (Mahmudi E. et al.) | 119 | 3–9 | 1.6% | | Ethiopia-Addis Ababa (Jafer K et al.) | 570 | 7–15 | 2.6% | | Morocco (Anera et al.) | 545 | 6–16 | 6.1% | | Iran-Shiraz (Yekta et al.) | 2130 | 5–15 | 4.3% | | India-North India (Saxena Rohit et al.) | 9884 | 5–15 | 79.5% | | China-Guangzhou (He M et al.) | 5053 | 5–15 | 8% | | Australia-Sydney (Rose KA et al.) | 1735 | 6–12 | 2% | | US-California (Theophanous et al.) | 60,789 | 5–19 | 41.9% | | South Korea (Jang JU et al.) | 1079 | 8–13 | 47% |
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