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Bookmark or Share- Controlling the global obesity epidemic - World Health Organization (WHO)
At the other end of the malnutrition scale, obesity is one of today’s most blatantly visible – yet most neglected – public health problems. Paradoxically coexisting with undernutrition, an escalating global epidemic of overweight and obesity – “globesity” – is taking over many parts of the world. If immediate action is not taken, millions will ...
- The challenge of obesity - World Health Organization (WHO)Key facts. Overweight and obesity are among the leading causes of disability and death in the WHO European Region; recent estimates suggest that they cause more than 1.2 million deaths across the Region every year.
- Obesity - World Health Organization (WHO)More than 1.9 billion adults were overweight in 2016, and 650 million obese. In 2016, more than 1.9 billion adults were overweight and 650 million were obese. At least 2.8 million people each year die as a result of being overweight or obese. The prevalence of obesity nearly tripled between 1975 and 2016.
- Obesity and overweight - World Health Organization (WHO)About 16% of adults aged 18 years and older worldwide were obese in 2022. The worldwide prevalence of obesity more than doubled between 1990 and 2022. In 2022, an estimated 37 million children under the age of 5 years were overweight. Once considered a high-income country problem, overweight is on the rise in low- and middle-income countries.
- Obesity - World Health Organization (WHO)Obesity is one side of the double burden of malnutrition, and today more people are obese than underweight in every region except the South-East Asia Region. Once considered a problem only in high-income countries, today some middle-income countries have among the highest prevalence of overweight and obesity worldwide.
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