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Obesity: epidemiology

Afghanistan

• Journal of Health, Population and Nutrition
  • Underweight and overweight/obesity among adults in Afghanistan: prevalence and correlates from a national survey in 2018 [2021]

Africa

• JMIR Public Health and Surveillance
  • Monitoring Information-Seeking Patterns and Obesity Prevalence in Africa With Internet Search Data: Observational Study [2021]

Argentina, Brazil

• Journal of Health, Population and Nutrition
  • Obesity Epidemic in Brazil and Argentina: A Public Health Concern [2014]

Asia

• Scientific Reports
  • Trends and social determinants of the obesity epidemic among reproductive-age women in ten Asian countries [2024]

Australia

• Australian Bureau of Statistics
  • Waist circumference and BMI

• Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
  • Overweight and obesity [2024]
  • Overweight and obesity in Australia: an updated birth cohort analysis [2020]
  • A framework for monitoring overweight and obesity in Australia [2020]
  • Data sources for monitoring overweight and obesity in Australia [2019]
  • Overweight and obesity rates across Australia 2014–15 [2018]
  • Overweight and obesity in Australia: a birth cohort analysis [2017]
  • A picture of overweight and obesity in Australia [2017]

• Nutrients
  • The Australian Paradox: A Substantial Decline in Sugars Intake over the Same Timeframe that Overweight and Obesity Have Increased [2011]

• Scientific Reports
  • Trends in the prevalence of adult overweight and obesity in Australia, and its association with geographic remoteness [2021]

Austria

• Wiener klinische Wochenschrift
  • Steady increase of obesity prevalence in Austria: Analysis of three representative cross-sectional national health interview surveys from 2006 to 2019 [2023]
  • Prevalence and trends in obesity among Austrian conscripts from 1983 to 2017 [2023]

Bahamas

• Frontiers in Public Health
  • Impact of sustained health policy and population-level interventions on reducing the prevalence of obesity in the Caribbean region: A qualitative study from The Bahamas [2022]

Bangladesh

• BMJ Open
  • Differences in prevalence and associated factors of underweight and overweight/obesity according to rural–urban residence strata among women of reproductive age in Bangladesh: evidence from a cross-sectional national survey [2020]

• International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
  • Differences in Prevalence and Associated Factors of Underweight and Overweight/Obesity among Bangladeshi Adults by Gender: Analysis of a Nationally Representative Survey [2022]

Belgium

• BMC Public Health
  • Past, present, and future trends of overweight and obesity in Belgium using Bayesian age-period-cohort models [2022]

Botswana

• BMJ Open
  • Dual burden of underweight and overweight/obesity among adults in Botswana: prevalence, trends and sociodemographic correlates: a cross-sectional survey [2020]

Brazil

• BMC Public Health
  • Characterization of the prevalence of excess weight in Brazil [2022]

• Cadernos de Saúde Pública
  • Undernutrition and obesity trends in Brazilian adults from 1975 to 2019 and its associated factors [2022]

• Epidemiologia e Serviços de Saúde
  • Temporal trend of overweight and obesity prevalence among Brazilian adults, according to sociodemographic characteristics, 2006-2019 [2021]

• International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
  • Obesity and Associated Factors in Brazilian Adults: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Representative Studies [2024]
  • Weight Gain and Change in Body Mass Index after Age 20 in the Brazilian Population and Associated Sociodemographic Factors: Data from the National Health Survey [2022]

• Journal of Obesity
  • Body Mass Index and Prevalence of Obesity in Brazilian Adult Women: Temporal Comparison of Repeated Population-Based Cross-Sectional Surveys [2024]

• PLoS ONE
  • Gender, time use and overweight and obesity in adults: Results of the Brazilian Longitudinal Study of Adult Health (ELSA-Brasil) [2018]

• Revista Brasileira de Epidemiologia
  • Increasing trends in obesity prevalence from 2013 to 2019 and associated factors in Brazil [2021]

• Scientific Reports
  • Time trends and projected obesity epidemic in Brazilian adults between 2006 and 2030 [2022]

Burkina Faso

• BMJ Open
  • Prevalence of abdominal obesity and its association with cardiovascular risk among the adult population in Burkina Faso: findings from a nationwide cross-sectional study [2021]
  • Prevalence and risk factors for overweight and obesity: a cross-sectional countrywide study in Burkina Faso [2020]

Cambodia

• PLOS Global Public Health
  • Overweight and obesity among women at reproductive age in Cambodia: Data analysis of Cambodia Demographic and Health Survey 2014 [2023]

Canada

• BMJ Open
  • Prevalence of age-specific and sex-specific overweight and obesity in Ontario and Quebec, Canada: a cross-sectional study using direct measures of height and weight [2018]

• Canadian Family Physician
  • Recent trends in adult body mass index and prevalence of excess weight: Data from the Canadian Primary Care Sentinel Surveillance Network [2022]

• Canadian Journal of Rural Medicine
  • Prevalence of obesity and elevated body mass index along a progression of rurality: A cross-sectional study - The Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging [2022]

• CMAJ Open
  • Trends in obesity across Canada from 2005 to 2018: a consecutive cross-sectional population-based study [2022]
  • Current and predicted prevalence of obesity in Canada: a trend analysis [2014]

• Obesity Canada
  • Epidemiology of Adult Obesity [2020]

• Public Health Agency of Canada
  • Trends and projections of obesity among Canadians [2015]
  • Obesity in Canada [2011]

Chad

• Archives of Public Health
  • Observed magnitude and trends in socioeconomic and geographic area inequalities in obesity prevalence among non-pregnant women in Chad: evidence from three waves of Chad demographic and health surveys [2021]

Chile

• BMC Public Health
  • Geographical disparities in obesity prevalence: small-area analysis of the Chilean National Health Surveys [2022]

China

• American Journal of Preventive Medicine
  • Prevalence and Secular Trends in Obesity Among Chinese Adults, 1991–2011 [2015]

• American Journal of Public Health
  • Prevalence of Underweight, Overweight, and Obesity Among Reproductive-Age Women and Adolescent Girls in Rural China [2016]

• BMC Public Health
  • A study of trends in body morphology, overweight, and obesity in Chinese adults aged 40-59 years [2025]
  • Trends of underweight, overweight, and obesity among older adults in China from 2008 to 2018: a national observational survey [2023]
  • The prevalence and increasing trends of overweight, general obesity, and abdominal obesity among Chinese adults: a repeated cross-sectional study [2019]

• China CDC Weekly
  • Weight Status and Self-Perception of Weight Among Women of Childbearing Age — China, 2015 [2021]

• Chinese Medical Journal
  • Obesity pandemic in China: epidemiology, burden, challenges, and opportunities [2022]

• Circulation: Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes
  • Obesity Prevalence and Risks Among Chinese Adults [2021]

• Frontiers in Endocrinology
  • Projecting National-Level Prevalence of General Obesity and Abdominal Obesity Among Chinese Adults With Aging Effects [2022]

• Frontiers in Public Health
  • Spatial analysis of the prevalence of abdominal obesity in middle-aged and older adult people in China: exploring the relationship with meteorological factors based on gender differences [2024]

• Lancet Regional Health – Western Pacific
  • Changes in the prevalence of obesity and hypertension and demographic risk factor profiles in China over 10 years: two national cross-sectional surveys [2021]

• Nutrients
  • Prevalence and Influencing Factors of Central Obesity among Adults in China: China Nutrition and Health Surveillance (2015-2017) [2024]

• Obesity Reviews
  • Overweight Dynamics in Chinese Children and Adults [2014]
  • Secular trends in the prevalence of general and abdominal obesity among Chinese adults, 1993–2009 [2012]

• Scientific Reports
  • Trends and inequalities in obesity and thinness among Chinese older adults based on CLHLS [2025]
  • Secular trends in the prevalence of abdominal obesity among Chinese adults with normal weight, 1993–2015 [2021]

Cuba

• Population Health Metrics
  • Inequality of weight status in urban Cuba: 2001–2010 [2021]

Cyprus

• Annali di Igiene
  • Social inequality in obesity in an Eastern Mediterranean population: evidence from a national health survey in Cyprus [2022]

Denmark

• European Journal of Public Health
  • Changes in adult obesity prevalence in Denmark, 1987-2021: age-period-cohort analysis of nationally representative data [2023]

East Africa

• African Health Sciences
  • Analysis of main risk factors contributing to obesity in the region of East Africa: meta-analysis [2020]

• International Journal of Health Geographics
  • Spatial and temporal trends of overweight/obesity and tobacco use in East Africa: subnational insights into cardiovascular disease risk factors [2023]

Ecuador

• American Journal of Clinical Nutrition
  • The double burden of undernutrition and excess body weight in Ecuador [2014]

• Journal of Endocrinological Investigation
  • Prevalence of overweight and metabolic syndrome, and associated sociodemographic factors among adult Ecuadorian populations: the ENSANUT-ECU study [2021]

Egypt

• Frontiers in Public Health
  • The Burden of Obesity in Egypt [2021]

Ethiopia

• BMC Public Health
  • Education and prevalence of overweight and obesity among reproductive age group women in Ethiopia: analysis of the 2016 Ethiopian demographic and health survey data [2020]

• BMJ Open
  • Prevalence of overweight/obesity among the adult population in Ethiopia: a systematic review and meta-analysis [2020]

• Frontiers in Endocrinology
  • Prevalence of central obesity and associated factors in Ethiopia: A systematic review and meta-analysis [2022]

• Global Health Action
  • Overweight and obesity trends and associated factors among reproductive women in Ethiopia [2024]

Europe

• Endocrine
  • Changes in prevalence of obesity and high waist circumference over four years across European regions: the European male ageing study (EMAS) [2016]

• European Association for the Study of Obesity
  • Monitoring the Obesity Epidemic into the 21st Century - Weighing the Evidence [2013]

• Eurostat
  • Overweight and obesity - BMI statistics

• International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
  • Prevalence and Socioeconomic Correlates of Adult Obesity in Europe: The Feel4Diabetes Study [2022]

• Nutrients
  • The Emerging Prevalence of Obesity within Families in Europe and its Associations with Family Socio-Demographic Characteristics and Lifestyle Factors; A Cross-Sectional Analysis of Baseline Data from the Feel4Diabetes Study [2023]

• Obesity Facts
  • Forecasting Future Trends in Obesity across Europe: The Value of Improving Surveillance [2018]

• SAGE Open Medicine
  • Getting to grips with the obesity epidemic in Europe [2016]

• WHO European Region
  • WHO European Regional Obesity Report 2022 [2022]
  • Obesity in the WHO European region factsheet [2022]
  • Obesity - European Health Information Gateway

Europe, United States

• Obesity Facts
  • Obesity Prevalence in the Long-Term Future in 18 European Countries and in the USA [2020]

France

• Journal of Clinical Medicine
  • Prevalence of Overweight and Obesity in France: The 2020 Obepi-Roche Study by the "Ligue Contre l'Obésité" [2023]

• Scientific Reports
  • Evolution of the prevalence of obesity in the adult population in France, 2013–2016: the Constances study [2021]

Gambia

• BMJ Open
  • The silent epidemic of obesity in The Gambia: evidence from a nationwide, population-based, cross-sectional health examination survey [2020]

Germany

• BMC Geriatrics
  • Prevalence and determinants of overweight and obesity in old age in Germany [2015]

• Healthcare
  • BMI Alterations and Prevalence of Overweight and Obesity Related to Service Duration at the German Armed Forces [2023]

• Obesity Facts
  • Socioeconomic Inequalities in the Rise of Adult Obesity: A Time-Trend Analysis of National Examination Data from Germany, 1990–2011 [2019]
  • Changes in Waist Circumference among German Adults over Time - Compiling Results of Seven Prospective Cohort Studies [2016]

Ghana

• BMC Public Health
  • Overweight and obesity epidemic in Ghana—a systematic review and meta-analysis [2016]
  • Double burden of malnutrition: increasing overweight and obesity and stall underweight trends among Ghanaian women [2015]

• BMJ Open
  • Spatial analysis of the prevalence of obesity and overweight among women in Ghana [2021]

• Journal of Health, Population and Nutrition
  • Trends and economic inequalities in obesity prevalence in Ghana: a cross-sectional study spanning 2008-2022 [2025]

India

• BMC Public Health
  • Trends and determinants of obesity among ever-married women aged 15-49 in India: insights from National Family Health Surveys (NFHS 1998-2021) [2025]
  • Temporal change in prevalence of BMI categories in India: patterns across States and Union territories of India, 1999-2021 [2024]
  • Do trends in the prevalence of overweight by socio-economic position differ between India’s most and least economically developed states? [2019]

• BMJ Open
  • Trends in the socioeconomic patterning of overweight/obesity in India: a repeated cross-sectional study using nationally representative data [2018]

• Epidemiologia
  • Obesity and Abdominal Obesity in Indian Population: Findings from a Nationally Representative Study of 698,286 Participants [2023]

• Indian Journal of Medical Research
  • Prevalence of generalized & abdominal obesity in urban & rural India- the ICMR - INDIAB Study (Phase-I) [ICMR - INDIAB-3] [2015]

• Lancet Regional Health - Southeast Asia
  • Abdominal obesity in India: analysis of the National Family Health Survey-5 (2019-2021) data [2023]

• PLoS ONE
  • Spatial clustering of overweight/obesity among women in India: Insights from the latest National Family Health Survey [2024]
  • Forecasting the prevalence of overweight and obesity in India to 2040 [2020]

Indonesia

• Medicine
  • The urgency in proposing the optimal obesity cutoff value in Indonesian population: A narrative review [2022]

• Nutrients
  • Disparities in Obesity Rates among Adults: Analysis of 514 Districts in Indonesia [2022]

• Public Health Action
  • Trends in BMI of Indonesian adults between 1993 and 2014: a longitudinal population-based study [2023]

International

• BMC Public Health
  • Global prevalence of obesity and overweight among medical students: a systematic review and meta-analysis [2024]

• EClinicalMedicine
  • Trends and predictions of malnutrition and obesity in 204 countries and territories: an analysis of the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019 [2023]

• European Journal of Epidemiology
  • Global, regional and time-trend prevalence of central obesity: a systematic review and meta-analysis of 13.2 million subjects [2020]

• Iranian Journal of Public Health
  • The Effect of Human Development Index on Obesity Prevalence at the Global Level: A Spatial Analysis [2023]

• Journal of Global Health
  • Global burden and cross-country inequalities in diseases associated with high body mass index from 1990 to 2019: Result from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019 [2024]

• Lancet
  • Global, regional, and national prevalence of adult overweight and obesity, 1990-2021, with forecasts to 2050: a forecasting study for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021 [2025]
  • Worldwide trends in body-mass index, underweight, overweight, and obesity from 1975 to 2016: a pooled analysis of 2416 population-based measurement studies in 128·9 million children, adolescents, and adults [2017]
  • Global, regional and national prevalence of overweight and obesity in children and adults 1980-2013: A systematic analysis [2014]

• Metabolism - Clinical and Experimental
  • A 2022 update on the epidemiology of obesity and a call to action: as its twin COVID-19 pandemic appears to be receding, the obesity and dysmetabolism pandemic continues to rage on [2022]

• Obesity Reviews
  • What is a "high" prevalence of obesity? Two rapid reviews and a proposed set of thresholds for classifying prevalence levels [2022]
  • Rising prevalence of BMI >=40 kg/m2: A high-demand epidemic needing better documentation [2020]

• PharmacoEconomics
  • The Epidemiology of Obesity: A Big Picture [2015]

• PLoS ONE
  • Prevalence patterns of overweight and obesity in the world: An age-period-cohort analysis [2025]
  • The association between national income and adult obesity prevalence: Empirical insights into temporal patterns and moderators of the association using 40 years of data across 147 countries [2020]

• World Obesity Federation
  • Prevalence of Obesity
  • Global Obesity Observatory

Iran

• BMC Geriatrics
  • The prevalence of obesity in older adults in Iran: a systematic review and meta-analysis [2019]

• BMC Public Health
  • The prevalence of obesity and overweight among Iranian population: an umbrella systematic review and meta-analysis [2024]
  • The prevalence of overweight and obesity among Iranian military personnel: a systematic review and meta-analysis [2019]

• Computational and Mathematical Methods in Medicine
  • Changes in Obesity Odds Ratio among Iranian Adults, since 2000: Quadratic Inference Functions Method [2016]

• Journal of Health, Population and Nutrition
  • Prevalence of overweight and obesity among Iranian population: a systematic review and meta-analysis [2023]

• Obesity Facts
  • Disparities in Obesity Prevalence in Iranian Adults: Cross-Sectional Study Using Data from the 2016 STEPS Survey [2021]

• Scientific Reports
  • National and subnational trends in obesity prevalence in Iran: a Spatiotemporal study with future predictions [2025]

Iraq

• International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
  • Overweight and Obesity among Adults in Iraq: Prevalence and Correlates from a National Survey in 2015 [2021]

Italy

• PLoS ONE
  • Trends of overweight, obesity and anthropometric measurements among the adult population in Italy: The CUORE Project health examination surveys 1998, 2008, and 2018 [2022]

Jamaica

• Cureus
  • Prevalence of Overweight and Obesity in Jamaica From 2000 to 2016 [2023]

Japan

• Frontiers in Public Health
  • Trends and Disparities in Adult Body Mass Index Across the 47 Prefectures of Japan, 1975-2018: A Bayesian Spatiotemporal Analysis of National Household Surveys [2022]

• Journal of Epidemiology
  • Relationship Between Socioeconomic Status and the Prevalence of Underweight, Overweight or Obesity in a General Japanese Population: NIPPON DATA2010 [2018]

• Journal of Nutritional Science and Vitaminology
  • Monitoring Obesity Trends in Health Japan 21 [2015]

• Journal of Occupational Health
  • Five-year cumulative incidence of overweight and obesity, and longitudinal change in body mass index in Japanese workers: The Japan Epidemiology Collaboration on Occupational Health Study [2019]

Jordan

• Epidemiology and Health
  • An alarmingly high and increasing prevalence of obesity in Jordan [2020]

Kenya

• Pan African Medical Journal
  • The prevalence and associated factors of underweight and overweight/obesity among adults in Kenya: evidence from a national cross-sectional community survey [2020]

• Preventive Medicine Reports
  • Prevalence and factors associated with overweight and obesity in Kenya [2021]

Kuwait

• BMC Public Health
  • Prevalence of overweight and obesity, and associations with socio-demographic factors in Kuwait [2021]

• Journal of Obesity
  • A Review of Adult Obesity Prevalence, Trends, Risk Factors, and Epidemiologic Methods in Kuwait [2013]

Latin America

• Frontiers in Endocrinology
  • Abdominal obesity prevalence in Latin America: a systematic review and meta-analysis comparing ATP III and IDF criteria [2025]

Latin America and the Caribbean

• Lancet Global Health
  • The shift of obesity burden by socioeconomic status between 1998 and 2017 in Latin America and the Caribbean: a cross-sectional series study [2019]

Lebanon

• BMC Public Health
  • Trends in overweight and obesity in Lebanon: evidence from two national cross-sectional surveys (1997 and 2009) [2012]

Lesotho

• BMC Public Health
  • Time trends in socio-economic, urban-rural and regional disparities in prevalence of obesity among non-pregnant women in Lesotho: evidence from Lesotho demographic and health surveys (2004–2014) [2021]

Libya

• Libyan Journal of Medicine
  • Obesity in Libya: a review [2012]

Low and middle income countries

• International Journal of Obesity
  • Socioeconomic inequalities in the prevalence of underweight, overweight, and obesity among women aged 20–49 in low- and middle-income countries [2020]

• Nutrition Reviews
  • The Global Nutrition Transition: The Pandemic of Obesity in Developing Countries [2012]

• Obesity Reviews
  • New dynamics in global obesity facing low- and middle-income countries [2013]

Luxembourg

• BMC Research Notes
  • Socioeconomic inequality and obesity prevalence trends in Luxembourg, 1995-2007 [2012]

Malawi

• PLoS ONE
  • Multilevel analysis of unhealthy bodyweight among women in Malawi: Does urbanisation matter? [2021]

Malaysia

• PLoS ONE
  • Prevalence of obesity and its associated risk factors among the elderly in Malaysia: Findings from The National Health and Morbidity Survey (NHMS) 2015 [2020]

Maldives

• PLoS ONE
  • Prevalence and associated factors of underweight, overweight and obesity among women of reproductive age group in the Maldives: Evidence from a nationally representative study [2020]

Mexico

• BMC Public Health
  • Time trends and sex differences in associations between socioeconomic status indicators and overweight-obesity in Mexico (2006–2012) [2015]

• Global Health Action
  • Regional-level estimation of expected years of life lost attributable to overweight and obesity among Mexican adults [2016]

• PLoS ONE
  • Educational Inequalities in Obesity among Mexican Women: Time-Trends from 1988 to 2012 [2014]

Middle East

• Journal of Obesity
  • Prevalence of Obesity and Overweight among Adults in the Middle East Countries from 2000 to 2020: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis [2022]

Netherlands

• Geospatial Health
  • Geographic clustering and region-specific determinants of obesity in the Netherlands [2020]

Nigeria

• Annals of Medicine
  • Estimating the prevalence of overweight and obesity in Nigeria in 2020: a systematic review and meta-analysis [2021]

• PLOS Global Public Health
  • Prevalence of overweight and obesity in Nigeria: Systematic review and meta-analysis of population-based studies [2022]

Norway

• Medical Decision Making
  • Modeling Obesity in Norway (The MOON Study): A Decision-Analytic Approach—Prevalence, Costs, and Years of Life Lost [2021]

Norway, Russia

• International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
  • Obesity Prevalence and Associated Socio-Demographic Characteristics and Health Behaviors in Russia and Norway [2022]

OECD countries

• Journal of Obesity
  • Can Obesity Prevalence Explain COVID-19 Indicators (Cases, Mortality, and Recovery)? A Comparative Study in OECD Countries [2022]

Palau

• Environmental Health and Preventive Medicine
  • Sociodemographic and behavioral factors related to obesity among adults in the Republic of Palau based on the WHO STEPwise approach to NCD risk factor surveillance 2011-2013: A cross-sectional study [2023]

Panama

• BMC Public Health
  • Prevalence of obesity in Panama: some risk factors and associated diseases [2015]

• Lancet Regional Health – Americas
  • Prevalence of central obesity according to different definitions in normal weight adults of two cross-sectional studies in Panama [2022]

Peru

• International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
  • What Drives Abdominal Obesity in Peru? A Multilevel Analysis Approach Using a Nationally Representative Survey [2022]

• Preventing Chronic Disease: Public Health Research, Practice and Policy
  • Parity and Overweight/Obesity in Peruvian Women [2017]

Poland

• European Journal of Public Health
  • Secular trends in BMI and the prevalence of obesity in young Polish males from 1965 to 2010 [2014]

• International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
  • Prevalence and Sociodemographic Factors Associated with Overweight and Obesity among Adults in Poland: A 2019/2020 Nationwide Cross-Sectional Survey [2022]

• Nutrients
  • Prevalence of Overweight, Obesity, and Abdominal Obesity in Polish Adults: Sociodemographic Analysis from the 2016-2020 National Health Program [2024]

Portugal

• BMC Public Health
  • Prevalence of general and abdominal obesity in Portugal: comprehensive results from the National Food, nutrition and physical activity survey 2015–2016 [2018]
  • Differing trends in the association between obesity and self-reported health in Portugal and Switzerland. Data from national health surveys 1992-2007 [2012]

Republic of Korea

• BMJ Open
  • Projecting the prevalence of obesity in South Korea through 2040: a microsimulation modelling approach [2020]

• Diabetes & Metabolism Journal
  • Trends in the Prevalence of Obesity and Its Phenotypes Based on the Korea National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey from 2007 to 2017 in Korea [2022]

• Endocrinology and Metabolism
  • Epidemiology and Trends of Obesity and Bariatric Surgery in Korea [2024]

• Epidemiology and Health
  • Obesity, hypertension, diabetes mellitus, and hypercholesterolemia in Korean adults before and during the COVID-19 pandemic: a special report of the 2020 Korea National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey [2022]

• International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
  • Trends and Inequalities in Overall and Abdominal Obesity by Sociodemographic Factors in Korean Adults, 1998–2018 [2021]

• International Journal of Obesity
  • Nationwide trends in prevalence of underweight, overweight, and obesity among people with disabilities in South Korea from 2008 to 2017 [2022]

• Journal of Obesity & Metabolic Syndrome
  • Obesity Fact Sheet in Korea, 2021: Trends in Obesity Prevalence and Obesity-Related Comorbidity Incidence Stratified by Age from 2009 to 2019 [2022]
  • Obesity Fact Sheet in Korea, 2020: Prevalence of Obesity by Obesity Class from 2009 to 2018 [2021]

• PLoS ONE
  • Sex-specific role of education on the associations of socioeconomic status indicators with obesity risk: A population-based study in South Korea [2018]

• Women’s Health Nursing
  • Prevalence of pre-obesity and above and its associated factors in adult women: an analysis of the 2020 Korea National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey [2024]

• World Journal of Men's Health
  • Obesity in Korean Men: Results from the Fourth through Sixth Korean National Health and Nutrition Examination Surveys (2007~2014) [2016]

Russia

• Obesity Reviews
  • Overweight and Obesity in the Russian Population: Prevalence in Adults and Association with Socioeconomic Parameters and Cardiovascular Risk Factors [2019]

Saudi Arabia

• Eastern Mediterranean Health Journal
  • Epidemiology of obesity and control interventions in Saudi Arabia [2023]

• Healthcare
  • The Impact of Age, Gender, Temporality, and Geographical Region on the Prevalence of Obesity and Overweight in Saudi Arabia: Scope of Evidence [2023]
  • Obesity in Saudi Arabia in 2020: Prevalence, Distribution, and Its Current Association with Various Health Conditions [2021]

• Preventing Chronic Disease: Public Health Research, Practice and Policy
  • Obesity and Associated Factors — Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, 2013 [2014]

South Africa

• International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
  • Socioeconomic Inequalities in Adult Obesity Prevalence in South Africa: A Decomposition Analysis [2014]

South America

• PLoS ONE
  • Prevalence, Distributions and Determinants of Obesity and Central Obesity in the Southern Cone of America [2016]

South Asia

• Nutrients
  • Obesity and Dyslipidemia in South Asians [2013]

Spain

• International Journal for Equity in Health
  • Unconditional quantile regressions to determine the social gradient of obesity in Spain 1993–2014 [2016]

Sub-Saharan Africa

• BMC Public Health
  • Overweight and obesity among women: analysis of demographic and health survey data from 32 Sub-Saharan African Countries [2016]

• International Health
  • Trends in obesity by socioeconomic status among non-pregnant women aged 15–49 y: a cross-sectional, multi-dimensional equity analysis of demographic and health surveys in 11 sub-Saharan Africa countries, 1994–2015 [2021]

• Nutrients
  • Overnutrition and associated factors among women of reproductive age in Sub-Saharan Africa: A hierarchical analysis of 2019-2023 standard demographic and health survey data [2024]

Sweden

• Annals of Epidemiology
  • Time trends of the association of body mass index with mortality in 3.5 million young Swedish adults [2024]

• Scandinavian Journal of Public Health
  • Prevalence and time trends of overweight, obesity and severe obesity in 447,925 Swedish adults, 1995–2017 [2021]

Switzerland

• European Journal of Public Health
  • Body mass index in young men in Switzerland after the national shutdowns during the COVID-19 pandemic: results from a cross-sectional monitoring study at the population level since 2010 [2022]

• Journal of Nutritional Science
  • A quantitative synthesis study on body mass index and associated factors among adult men and women in Switzerland [2022]

• Obesity Facts
  • From Undernutrition to Overnutrition: The Evolution of Overweight and Obesity among Young Men in Switzerland since the 19th Century [2016]

• PLoS ONE
  • Socioeconomic, Temporal and Regional Variation in Body Mass Index among 188,537 Swiss Male Conscripts Born between 1986 and 1992 [2014]

Syria

• Vascular Health and Risk Management
  • CVD and obesity in transitional Syria: a perspective from the Middle East [2012]

Taiwan

• PLoS ONE
  • Trends in the distribution of body mass index, waist circumference and prevalence of obesity among Taiwanese adults, 1993-2016 [2022]

Timor-Leste

• PLoS ONE
  • Prevalence and factors associated with underweight, overweight and obesity among 15-49-year-old men and women in Timor-Leste [2022]

Tunisia

• Population Health Metrics
  • Abdominal vs. overall obesity among women in a nutrition transition context: geographic and socio-economic patterns of abdominal-only obesity in Tunisia [2015]

Uganda

• International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
  • Spatial Distribution of Underweight, Overweight and Obesity among Women and Children: Results from the 2011 Uganda Demographic and Health Survey [2013]

• Obesity Science & Practice
  • Trend in overweight and obesity among women of reproductive age in Uganda: 1995–2016 [2019]

United Arab Emirates

• Journal of Obesity
  • The Epidemiology and Economic Burden of Obesity and Related Cardiometabolic Disorders in the United Arab Emirates: A Systematic Review and Qualitative Synthesis [2018]

United Kingdom

• BMC Public Health
  • Unevenly distributed: A systematic review of the health literature about socioeconomic inequalities in adult obesity in the United Kingdom [2012]

• BMJ Open
  • Does the use of prediction equations to correct self-reported height and weight improve obesity prevalence estimates? A pooled cross-sectional analysis of Health Survey for England data [2023]
  • How much of the stalled mortality trends in Scotland and England can be attributed to obesity? [2022]

• British Journal of General Practice
  • Epidemiology of adult overweight recording and management by UK GPs: a systematic review [2017]

• Department of Health and Social Care
  • Obesity Profile

• Office for Health Improvement and Disparities
  • Obesity Profile: short statistical commentary May 2024 [2024]

• PLoS Medicine
  • How Has the Age-Related Process of Overweight or Obesity Development Changed over Time? Co-ordinated Analyses of Individual Participant Data from Five United Kingdom Birth Cohorts [2015]

• UK Parliament
  • Obesity statistics [2025]

United States

• Advances in Nutrition
  • Racial-Ethnic Disparities in Obesity and Biological, Behavioral, and Sociocultural Influences in the United States: A Systematic Review [2021]

• American Journal of Preventive Medicine
  • Obesity Prevalence Among U.S. Adults During the COVID-19 Pandemic [2022]
  • Prevalence and Trends in Lifetime Obesity in the U.S., 1988–2014 [2017]
  • Obesity Among U.S.- and Foreign-Born Blacks by Region of Birth [2015]

• Annals of Internal Medicine
  • Heterogeneity in Obesity Prevalence Among Asian American Adults [2022]

• BMJ
  • Trends in obesity and adiposity measures by race or ethnicity among adults in the United States 2011-18: population based study [2021]

• BMJ Open
  • Trends in body mass index, overweight and obesity among adults in the USA, the NHANES from 2003 to 2018: a repeat cross-sectional survey [2023]
  • Temporal trends in obesity defined by the relative fat mass (RFM) index among adults in the United States from 1999 to 2020: a population-based study [2023]
  • Regional differences in intercohort and intracohort trends in obesity in the USA: evidence from the National Health Interview Survey, 1982-2018 [2022]

• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
  • State-Specific Prevalence of Severe Obesity Among Adults in the US Using Bias Correction of Self-Reported Body Mass Index [2023]
  • Prevalence of Obesity and Severe Obesity Among Adults: United States, 2017-2018 [2020]
  • Obesity Prevalence Among Adults Living in Metropolitan and Nonmetropolitan Counties — United States, 2016 [2018]
  • Prevalence of Obesity Among Adults, by Household Income and Education — United States, 2011–2014 [2017]
  • Overweight Prevalence
  • Obesity Data and Statistics
  • Adult Obesity Facts

• Cureus
  • Trends in Obesity-Related Mortality and Racial Disparities [2023]

• Frontiers in Public Health
  • The Prevalence of Overfat Adults and Children in the US [2017]

• Gastroenterology Clinics of North America
  • Obesity epidemiology trends by race/ethnicity, gender, and education: National Health Interview Survey, 1997–2012 [2016]

• International Journal of Epidemiology
  • Has the prevalence of overweight, obesity and central obesity levelled off in the United States? Trends, patterns, disparities, and future projections for the obesity epidemic [2020]

• JAMA
  • Trends in Obesity Prevalence by Race and Hispanic Origin—1999-2000 to 2017-2018 [2020]

• JAMA Network Open
  • Use of Small-Area Estimates to Describe County-Level Geographic Variation in Prevalence of Extreme Obesity Among US Adults [2020]

• Lancet
  • National-level and state-level prevalence of overweight and obesity among children, adolescents, and adults in the USA, 1990-2021, and forecasts up to 2050 [2024]

• New England Journal of Medicine
  • Projected U.S. State-Level Prevalence of Adult Obesity and Severe Obesity [2019]
  • Simulation of Growth Trajectories of Childhood Obesity into Adulthood [2017]

• Obesity
  • Regional Disparities in Obesity Prevalence in the United States: A Spatial Regime Analysis [2014]

• Obesity Reviews
  • Obesity and Mortality: Are the Risks Declining? Evidence from Multiple Prospective Studies in the U.S [2014]

• Obesity Science & Practice
  • The Hispanic paradox in the prevalence of obesity at the county-level [2020]

• PLoS ONE
  • An interpretable machine learning model of cross-sectional U.S. county-level obesity prevalence using explainable artificial intelligence [2023]
  • Redrawing the US Obesity Landscape: Bias-Corrected Estimates of State-Specific Adult Obesity Prevalence [2016]
  • Change in Obesity Prevalence across the United States Is Influenced by Recreational and Healthcare Contexts, Food Environments, and Hispanic Populations [2016]

• Population Health Metrics
  • Measuring and tracking obesity inequality in the United States: evidence from NHANES, 1971-2014 [2016]

• Rhode Island Medical Journal
  • Class II/III Obesity Prevalence in Residents of US Nursing Homes: Cross-sectional Study and Forecasting 2030 with COVID-19 Perspective [2023]

Uzbekistan

• International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
  • Obesity, Burden of Ischemic Heart Diseases and Their Ecological Association: The Case of Uzbekistan [2022]

Vietnam

• Lancet Regional Health – Western Pacific
  • Prevalence of obesity and abdominal obesity and their association with metabolic-related conditions in Vietnamese adults: an analysis of Vietnam STEPS survey 2009 and 2015 [2023]

WHO

• World Health Organization
  • Prevalence of overweight among adults, BMI >= 25 (crude estimate) (%)
  • Prevalence of overweight among adults, BMI >= 25 (age-standardized estimate) (%)
  • Prevalence of obesity among adults, BMI >= 30 (crude estimate) (%)
  • Prevalence of obesity among adults, BMI >= 30 (age-standardized estimate) (%)

Zimbabwe

• International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
  • Trends in Prevalence and Related Risk Factors of Overweight and Obesity among Women of Reproductive Age in Zimbabwe, 2005–2015 [2019]

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