Editing Myopia (section)

===Europe===
[[File:Myopia rate in Europe by birth decade.svg|thumb|upright=1.8|Myopia rate in Europe by birth decade (1910 to 1970)<ref>{{cite journal | vauthors = Williams KM, Bertelsen G, Cumberland P, Wolfram C, Verhoeven VJ, Anastasopoulos E, Buitendijk GH, Cougnard-Grégoire A, Creuzot-Garcher C, Erke MG, Hogg R, Höhn R, Hysi P, Khawaja AP, Korobelnik JF, Ried J, Vingerling JR, Bron A, Dartigues JF, Fletcher A, Hofman A, Kuijpers RW, Luben RN, Oxele K, Topouzis F, von Hanno T, Mirshahi A, Foster PJ, van Duijn CM, Pfeiffer N, Delcourt C, Klaver CC, Rahi J, Hammond CJ | display-authors = 6 | title = Increasing Prevalence of Myopia in Europe and the Impact of Education | journal = Ophthalmology | volume = 122 | issue = 7 | pages = 1489–97 | date = July 2015 | pmid = 25983215 | pmc = 4504030 | doi = 10.1016/j.ophtha.2015.03.018 }}</ref>]]
* In first-year undergraduate students in the United Kingdom 50% of [[United Kingdom|British]] whites and 53% of British Asians were myopic.<ref name="pmid15829853">{{cite journal | vauthors = Logan NS, Davies LN, Mallen EA, Gilmartin B | title = Ametropia and ocular biometry in a U.K. university student population | journal = Optometry and Vision Science | volume = 82 | issue = 4 | pages = 261–6 | date = April 2005 | pmid = 15829853 | doi = 10.1097/01.OPX.0000159358.71125.95 | s2cid = 25384178 }}</ref>
* A recent review found 27% of Western Europeans aged 40 or older have at least −1.00 diopters of myopia and 5% have at least −5.00 diopters.<ref name="pmid15078666" />