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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.
1 Μαρ 2024 · Key facts. In 2022, 1 in 8 people in the world were living with obesity. Worldwide adult obesity has more than doubled since 1990, and adolescent obesity has quadrupled. In 2022, 2.5 billion adults (18 years and older) were overweight. Of these, 890 million were living with obesity.
Overweight is body mass index (BMI) at or above the 85th percentile and below the 95th percentile from the sex-specific BMI-for-age 2000 CDC Growth Charts. SOURCE: National Center for Health Statistics, National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey.
What is obesity and how is it measured? Obesity is a leading risk factor for poor health outcomes. How is obesity defined and measured? Obesity is one of the leading risk factors for early death. Obesity is responsible for millions of premature deaths each year.
Results from the 2007–2008 National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES), using measured heights and weights, indicate that an estimated 34.2% of U.S. adults aged 20 years and over are overweight, 33.8% are obese, and 5.7% are extremely obese, as shown in Table 1.
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.
