World Obesity Atlas 2024 Obesity and its consequences • Global, regional and national estimates of the contribution of obesity to leading non- communicable diseases in adults • Global, regional and national predictions of the effects of obesity on children’s higher risk of non-communicable diseases • 186 national scorecards for child and adult obesity and its consequences March 2024 Compiled by Ti. [...] High BMI and the risk of non-communicable diseases in adults Based on data trends for 2000-2016, and assuming no interventions, the projected rise in the prevalence and numbers of adults with high BMI is shown in Table 1.1. [...] For the present Atlas, we have re-analysed the World Obesity Atlas 2024 17 available data for comparable years from the World Bank (2000-2016) (World Bank, 2024a) and NCD RisC (2000- 2016) (NCD RisC, 2024) in order to examine the rate of increase in GDP in the last two decades, and the rate of increase in the prevalence of high BMI (defined for adults as a BMI ≥ 25 kg/m2 and for children as a BMI. [...] High BMI and the risk of non- communicable disease in adults: Analyses of numbers and trends by WHO regions and World Bank income groups This section considers the distribution of high BMI according to WHO region and according to World Bank income group, and the deaths and lost healthy life-years (DALYs) caused by non-communicable disease attributable to high BMI. [...] High BMI and the risk of non- communicable disease in childhood: Analyses of numbers and trends by WHO regions and World Bank income groups This section considers the distribution of high BMI in childhood (age under 20 years) according to WHO region and according to World Bank income group, and the early signs of non-communicable disease they may experience attributable to high BMI.
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