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World Health Statistics 2008 presents the most recent available health statistics for WHO’s 193 Member States. This This fourth edition includes 10 highlights of health statistics as well as data on an expanded set of over 70 key health
In 2008, 9.8% of men and 13.8% of women in the world were obese (with a BMI 30 kg/m2), compared with 4.8% for men and 7.9% for women in 1980 (32). An estimated 205 million men and 297 million women over the age of 20 were obese in 2008 – a total of more than 500 million adults worldwide.
In the map, here we see the distribution of average (mean) BMI in adult women across the world. In 2016, the global average (mean) BMI in women was around 25, which is the cut-off for overweight. The average BMI tends to be higher in North and South America and North Africa, and lower in sub-Saharan Africa and Asia.
Overweight or obese population is the share of the population with excessive weight presenting health risks because of the high proportion of body fat.
8 Ιουλ 2008 · The estimated total numbers of overweight and obese adults in 2005 were 937 million (922–951 million) and 396 million (388–405 million), respectively.
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20 Νοε 2012 · Male overweight in 2008 ranged from 5.8% (1.7-13.3%) in the Democratic Republic of the Congo to over 90% in the Cook Islands and Nauru (these countries also had prevalences of overweight greater than 90% without age standardization). More than half of men were overweight in 100 countries in 2008.
