Rising Obesity Rates: A Global Epidemic – Insights from The Lancet Study

2024-03-01 00:24:00

Between 1990 and 2022, the rate of obesity in the population quadrupled among children and adolescents and doubled among adults, indicates this large study published in the British medical journal The Lancet and carried out in collaboration with the World Health Organization. health (WHO).

This “epidemic” has progressed “more quickly than anticipated”, noted Professor Francesco Branca, director of the “Nutrition for health and development” department of the WHO, during a press conference. Crossing the threshold of one billion people affected was initially envisaged around 2030, according to Professor Majid Ezzati of Imperial College London, one of the main authors of the study.

Based on data from around 220 million people in more than 190 countries, this work suggests that almost 880 million adults were living with obesity in 2022 (504 million women and 374 million men). In 1990, there were 195 million.

Since 1990, the obesity rate has almost tripled among men (from 4.8% in 1990 to 14% in 2022) and more than doubled among women (from 8.8% to 18.5%), with disparities between countries.

Even more worrying, in 2022 this disease affected nearly 160 million children and adolescents (94 million boys and 65 million girls). Some 30 years earlier, there were 31 million.

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