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Countries by obesity rate, data from WHO 2022 This is a list of countries by obesity rate , with data from the World Health Organization (WHO), as of 2022. World Health Organization (2022 data)
Obesity has been observed throughout human history. Many early depictions of the human form in art and sculpture appear obese. [2] However, it was not until the 20th century that obesity became common — so much so that, in 1997, the World Health Organization (WHO) formally recognized obesity as a global epidemic [3] and estimated that the worldwide prevalence of obesity has nearly tripled ...
On March 1, the World Health Organization (WHO) reported findings from a recent Lancet study that revealed 1 in 8 people worldwide are now living with obesity.More specifically, the latest data ...
Prevalence of obesity in the adult population, top countries (2016), the United States has the tenth highest rate in the world. The CDC defines an adult (a person aged 20 years or greater) with a body mass index (BMI) of 30 or greater as obese and an adult with a BMI of 25.0 to 29.9 as overweight. [4] Obesity in adults is divided into three ...
The prevalence of severe obesity was higher among women at 12.7% compared to 6.7% for men. Among age groups, the prevalence of obesity was highest among adults between ages 40 and 59 at 46.4%.
The prevalence of obesity and overweight have risen to epidemic proportions in the United States, where 67% of adults are overweight and, of these, approximately half are obese. [30] [31] The prevalence of hypertension, another cardiometabolic syndrome component, has been increasing for the last decade. In 1994, 24% of U.S. adults had hypertension.
With over 1 billion people worldwide estimated to be living with obesity, the Commission’s proposal offers health systems a chance to adopt a universal, clinically meaningful definition of ...
The data for mean body mass index by country was published by the World Health Organization. The list below refers to year 2014. The list below refers to year 2014. Data