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Approximately 1 in 5 U.S. children and adolescents have obesity. Obesity affects some groups more than others, including adolescents, Hispanic and non-Hispanic Black children, and children in families with lower incomes. Health care for obesity is expensive for patients and the health care system.
Data and statistics on the prevalence of obesity among US children and adolescents.
From 1999–2000 through August 2021–August 2023, the prevalence of obesity among persons in the United States aged 2–19 years increased from 13.9% to 21.1%, and the prevalence of severe obesity increased from 3.6% to 7.0%.
Almost 1 in 5 children and adolescents ages 2 to 19 (19.3%) have obesity. 3; About 1 in 16 children and adolescents ages 2 to 19 (6.1%) have severe obesity. 3; Using Body Mass Index (BMI) to Estimate Overweight and Obesity. BMI is a tool to estimate and screen for overweight and obesity in adults and children.
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 age of 5 were overweight. Over 390 million children and adolescents aged 5–19 years were overweight in 2022, including 160 million who were living with obesity.
The study included 14 967 children and adolescents (mean [SD] age, 9.81 [5.07] years; 7613 [50.9%] boys and 7354 [49.1%] girls). Among youth aged 2 to 19 years, the prevalence of obesity increased from 16.9% (95% CI, 14.9%-18.9%) in 2011 to 2012 to 19.7% (95% CI, 18.0%-21.5%) in 2017 to 2020 (Table and Figure).
We examined obesity incidence and prevalence across 2 cohorts of children in the United States 12 years apart using the Early Childhood Longitudinal Studies, parallel data sets following the kindergarten cohorts of 1998 and 2010 with direct anthropometric measurements at multiple...
White and Asian American children have significantly lower rates of obesity than African American children, Hispanic children, or children of other races. We report a positive linear trend for all definitions of overweight and obesity among children 2–19 years old, most prominently among adolescents.
Childhood obesity Share of children that are overweight. Obesity and overweight in children are also measured based on body mass index (BMI). However, BMI scores are interpreted differently for children and adolescents.
Roughly one in six youth have obesity, according to the newest available data. The data, from the National Survey of Children’s Health, show that in 2021-2022, 17.0% of youth ages 10 to 17 had obesity. There are significant disparities by race and ethnicity at the national level.