New study released by the Lancet shows that, in 2022, more than 1 billion people in the world are now living with obesity.
Apr 1 2024The World Health Organization Worldwide, obesity among adults has more than doubled since 1990, and has quadrupled among children and adolescents . The data also show that 43% of adults were overweight in 2022.
Countries with the highest combined rates of underweight and obesity in 2022 were island nations in the Pacific and the Caribbean and those in the Middle East and North Africa. WHO has contributed to the data collection and analysis of this study. The full dataset is now also disseminated through the Global Health Observatory.
Obesity is a complex chronic disease. The causes are well understood, as are the interventions needed to contain the crisis, which are backed by strong evidence. However, they are not implemented. At the World Health Assembly in 2022 Member States adopted the WHO Acceleration plan to stop obesity, which supports country-level action through 2030. To date, 31 governments are now leading the way to curb the obesity epidemic by implementing the plan.
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