An international team of more than 1,500 scientists found that the total number of obese children, adolescents and adults worldwide exceeds 1 billion. This is stated in an analytical report published in the scientific journal. magazine Lancet.
Global obesity rates among children and adolescents have quadrupled from 1990 to 2022, according to the study.
Obesity rates among adults have more than doubled in women and nearly tripled in men. In 2022, a total of 159 million children and adolescents and 879 million adults (504 million women and 374 million men) were living with obesity.
The countries with the highest rates of underweight and obesity in 2022 were the Pacific and Caribbean countries, as well as the Middle East and North Africa.
“It is very worrying that the obesity epidemic, which was evident among adults in many parts of the world in 1990, is now affecting school-aged children and adolescents. At the same time, hundreds of millions of people still suffer from malnutrition, especially in the poorest parts of the world. To successfully combat both forms of malnutrition, it is vital to significantly increase the availability of healthy, nutritious food,” said the study’s senior author, Professor Majid Ezzati from Imperial College London.
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