We present new calculations of gravitational lensing statistics in view of recent revisions in our knowl- edge of the luminosity function and internal velocity dispersion of E/S0 galaxies that work as effective lenses for background high-redshift QSOs. We show that the theoretical prediction of the lensing sta- tistics is much smaller than previously expected. In sharp contrast to earlier statistics supporting an Ω0= 1 universe, the small lensing probability reported from the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) Snapshot Lens Survey is in best agreement with a low-density, flat universe with Ω0 ≈0.2 and Ω0 + λ0 = 1. The age of this universe, combined with the HST measurement of a high value for the Hubble constant H_0, can be reconciled with the age of the oldest globular clusters in the Milky Way.
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