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Originally Posted by lurker2010
So surprising I tried to verify the statistics. Google didn't help. As of the late 90's 70% of people in Japan were wearing hard lenses.
If your statistics are true, and I'm very skeptical, it suggestes contact lens wearers in Japan went from hard lenses directly to daily disposible. Contact lens wearers in the US probably found no major reason to switch from 2 week lenses to daily lenses.
That said I think the 5% number is probably low. |
I guess it depends on who you ask:
"In 2007, it was reported that daily disposable CLs accounted for 43% of all new soft contact lens fits in Japan— but only 5% in the United States"-- reviewofcontactlenses.com/content/d/soft_lenses/c/21293/
"It has been estimated that 125 million people use
contact lenses worldwide (2%), including 28 to 38 million in the United States and 13 million in Japan" (as quoted from
National Consumer Affairs Center of Japan. NCAC News Vol. 12, No. 4 in Wikipedia).
" . . . dailies account from 40% to 60% of new soft lens fits in Japan, Scandinavia, Norway and Denmark" (as quoted from
Morgan P.B., Woods C.A., et. al. International Contact Lens Prescribing in 2007. Contact Lens Spectrum; January 2008 in optometric.com).