• Question: Do your eyeballs grow?

    Asked by rhiannonisshort to Amylou, Maria, Mark L, Mark U on 20 Jun 2012.
    • Photo: Amy Evans

      Amy Evans answered on 20 Jun 2012:

      Hi rhiannonisshort, yes they do! From birth until about the age of 3 your eyeballs grow very rapidly. But they keep growing until about the age of 16. They grow mainly in the front-to-back direction though not at the bit which you see out of and the growth is really very small, it has been found that an infants eyes are about 60% of the size of an adults’ eye.

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