Obesity tops 2.1b
May 30, 2014
The number of overweight and
obese individuals has topped 2.1b
in 2013, according to research
published in the Lancet.
The study looked at studies,
surveys and reports from 188
countries and found the number
of overweight or obese individuals
had increased from 857m in 1980,
with a 27.5% rise for adults and a
47.1% rise for children.
Rates of obesity seemed to be
increasing in both developed and
developing countries, with the
rate of increase of overweight and
obesity slowing in the past decade,
particularly in developed countries.
During the full period of the study,
the largest increases in the rate of
obesity were in Egypt, Saudi Arabia,
Oman, Honduras and Bahrain for
women while for men, it was in
New Zealand, the USA, Bahrain,
Kuwait and Saudi Arabi.
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