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In 2019 Wales had the highest child obesity percentage out of the four constituent countries of the United Kingdom and had a higher obesity rate than England. [67] [66] [68] One in eight reception age children in 2019 were reported to be obese [69] and 3.3% of children were severely obese. [70]
Rank Country Percentage of adults with obesity (BMI ≥ 30) 1 Tonga: 70.54 2 Nauru: 70.18 3 Tuvalu: 63.93 4 Samoa: 61.24 5 The Bahamas: 47.61 6 Marshall Islands: 47.29
This includes overall trends such as life expectancy and mortality rates, mental health of the population and the suicide rate, smoking rates, alcohol consumption, prevalence of diseases within the population and obesity in the United Kingdom. Three of these – smoking rates, alcohol consumption and obesity – were above the OECD average in ...
For some statistics such as height, weight, overweight and obesity, smoking, general health, longstanding illness and acute sickness data from the 1990s onwards are published in trend tables. Other trend tables, e.g. hypertension cover the period 2003-2019.
Costs include money spent by the NHS on treating the complications of obesity, such as type 2 diabetes and heart disease. Obesity levels among children ‘could end up costing more than £8bn ...
The prevalence of smoking has declined from 19.9% to 14.9% in the last 7 years and if this trend continues, it will reduce to between 8.5% and 11.7% by 2023. However, there has been an increase in the prevalence of obesity. In England, in 2016, 26.2% of adults were obese and it is forecast that levels of obesity will increase by 2023.
The most recent combined Eurostat statistics, for 2009, show that, among the 19 EU Member States for which data are available, the proportion of obese people in the adult population varied in 2008/9 between 8.0% (Romania) and 23.9% (UK) for women and between 7.6% (Romania) and 24.7% (Malta) for men. Overall the UK had the highest proportions ...
The National Obesity Observatory (NOO) was a publicly funded body that is part of a network of Public Health Observatories across Britain and Ireland. It published data, information, and intelligence related to obesity, overweight, and their underlying causes. NOO is now part of Public Health England who now carry out their work.