The prevalence of severe obesity has increased rapidly worldwide. According to a study published in 2022, obesity has affected more than a billion people. Since 1990, the proportion of seriously overweight people in the population has more than doubled and even quadrupled among adolescents between the ages of five and nineteen.
In some rich countries and certain population and age groups, numbers are now reaching a plateau or declining slightly. Spain and France.
According to this study, the share of obese women in Austria in 2022 was 13 percent, which corresponds to 170th place on the country list. Number 1 on the list and therefore the hardest hit is Tonga with 81 percent.
19 percent of men in Austria are overweight
Among men, the share in Austria was 19 percent (rank 113). Here, the island state of American Samoa comes first with 70 percent of obese men, among girls and women up to 19 years old this was seven percent in Germany (rank 119), and among boys and young people it was 10 percent among men (111th place). .
A total of 880 million adults and 159 million children and young people between the ages of five and nineteen were seriously overweight. In 2022, 9.3 percent of boys were considered obese, compared to 6.9 percent of girls.
Among adults, the share of women has doubled to 18.5 percent since 1990, and among men it has tripled to 14 percent.
The other side of the nutritional problem: At the same time, hundreds of millions of people around the world are still affected by malnutrition and malnutrition, especially in countries in Southeast Asia and sub-Saharan Africa.
Malnutrition is responsible for half of all deaths among children under the age of five. According to the WHO, severe obesity and malnutrition are two sides of the same problem: poor nutrition.
Source: Krone
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