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Bookmark or Share- Obesity - World Health Organization (WHO)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. Once associated with high-income countries, obesity is now also prevalent in low- and middle-income countries.
- 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 and overweight - World Health Organization (WHO)Finally, the rise in obesity rates in low-and middle-income countries, including among lower socio-economic groups, is fast globalizing a problem that was once associated only with high-income countries. Facing a double burden of malnutrition. Many low- and middle-income countries face a so-called double burden of malnutrition.
- 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 ...
- New analysis from WHO/Europe identifies surprising trends in rates of ...An analysis has identified that in some countries of the WHO European Region, rates of overweight and obesity have stopped rising, and that higher social and economic status do not necessarily correlate with lower rates of overweight and obesity. Furthermore, the analysis explains that obesity and overweight that start in childhood lead to more health problems.These 3 trends were identified ...
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