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Bookmark or Share- Obesity and overweight - World Health Organization (WHO)Worldwide adult obesity has more than doubled since 1990, and adolescent obesity has quadrupled. In 2022, 2.5 billion adults (18 years and older) were overweight. Of these, 890 million were living with obesity. In 2022, 43% of adults aged 18 years and over were overweight and 16% were living with obesity. In 2022, 37 million children under the ...
- Study finds Pacific accounts for 9 of the 10 most obese countries in ...News release. Suva. New analysis published in the Lancet has found that Pacific island countries account for 9 out of 10 of the top countries in the world with the highest prevalence of obesity among women and men aged 20 and above. Looking at data from 2022, the study found that more than 1 billion people in the world are now living with obesity.
- Obesity - World Health Organization (WHO)Rates of overweight and obesity continue to grow in adults and children. From 1990 to 2022, the percentage of children and adolescents aged 5–19 years living with obesity increased four-fold from 2% to 8% globally, while the percentage of adults 18 years of age and older living with obesity more than doubled from 7% to 16%.
- Obesity - World Health Organization (WHO)Overweight and obesity are defined as "abnormal or excessive fat accumulation that may impair health". Body mass index (BMI) – the weight in kilograms divided by the square of the height in meters (kg/m2) – is a commonly used index to classify overweight and obesity in adults. WHO defines overweight as a BMI equal to or more than 25, and ...
- One in eight people are now living with obesityThe study also shows that even though the rates of undernutrition have dropped, it is still a public health challenge in many places, particularly in South-East Asia and sub-Saharan Africa. Countries with the highest combined rates of underweight and obesity in 2022 were island nations in the Pacific and the Caribbean and those in the Middle ...
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