NEWSThere are now more than one billion people living with obesity worldwide, with one in eight of the population affected, new analysis reveals. Around 159 million children and adolescents and 879 million adults weigh so much relative to their height that it classifies them as obese. Obesity rates among youngsters quadrupled globally between 1990 and 2022 – the latest statistics available – while rates among adults more than doubled, researchers found. These include 8 million women, 7.4 million men, 760 000 boys and 590 000 girls. Obesity rates were higher than rates of underweight for girls and boys in around two-thirds of the world’s countries.
