By 2035, about 51% of the world’s population, or 4 billion people, could be overweight or have obesity, the World Obesity Atlas 2023That would be a sharp rise from 2020, when about 38% of the world’s population, or 2.6 billion people, was classified as overweight or having obesity.
Obesity rates among children and adolescents could double in the next 12 years. The percentage of young males with obesity could rise from 10% in 2020 to 20% in 2035, and the percentage of young females with obesity could rise from 8% to 18%. “At nearly 3% of global GDP , this is on a par with the financial impact of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020,” the report says.of obesity as body mass index, or BMI, over 30 and overweight as a BMI over 25. BMI is defined as a person's weight in kilograms divided by the square of their height in meters.
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