 The study found that Europeans had a higher prevalence of age-related macular degeneration compared to other ethnicities, with a higher prevalence of geographic atrophy subtype. It also estimated that there will be 196 million people with age-related macular degeneration in 2020 and 288 million in 2040. This article was authored by WAN Lingwong, MBIOSTAT, SINISU, MD, Siong Li, BSC, and others.