Once considered a high-income country problem, overweight and obesity are now on the rise in low- and middle-income countries, particularly in urban settings. Number of obese people in Europe has increased threefold over the last 20 years. Obesity and overweight pose a major risk for serious diet-related chronic diseases, including type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular disease, hypertension and stroke, and certain forms of cancer. developing countries than in the developed world. Once considered a high-income country problem, overweight and obesity are now on the rise in low- and middle-income countries, particularly in urban settings.
Little research on the economic impact of obesity in developing countries has been undertaken, making it difficult to assess the impact accurately. Today no one country is immune to obesity. Obesity is a civilization disease and the proportion of people suffering from it continues to grow, especially in the developed countries. In countries where the BMI distribution has not yet shifted sufficiently to the right to tip many individuals beyond the defining threshold (cf. Obesity is a significant public health concern affecting more than half a billion people worldwide.
At the same time, however, speculation as to the economic impact of obesity in the developing countries can be made using data from developed countries. However, underprivileged people residing in urban areas (mostly rural to urban migrants) show increasing prevalence of overweight/ obesity and other cardiovascular risk factors [14].
India and Japan in Table 2) the increase in obesity may appear negligible, but this might obscure the beginnings of an epidemic that may be developing as fast as in the developed nations. Obesity is a civilization disease and the proportion of people suffering from it continues to grow, especially in the developed countries. Vietnam is the least obese country with 2.1% of the population classified as obese.
The worldwide prevalence of obesity nearly tripled between 1975 and 2016.
Obesity rise is not only limited to developed countries, but to developing nations as well. Obesity’s Rise in all Countries. Today, obesity affects more than 300 million adults, the majority of whom live in the developed world ().In the past two decades, the average level of obesity in the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development countries has risen by 8%. The rise in obesity and related diseases in less developed countries can be traced in large part to the rapid nutrition transition in these countries—the shift from a diet of simple and sometimes traditional foods with little variation to a diet more reliant on processed foods, animal-source foods, fat, and sugar. 26, 2020.
underprivileged people in developed countries is substantial, in developing countries rural-based people are mostly lean and have low prevalence of T2DM and CVD. In contrast to the developed countries where overweight/obesity is commoner among the low socioeconomic class 7-9, majority 56 (76.7%) of these overweight children in this study were of high socioeconomic class. In almost half of developed countries, one out of every two people is overweight or obese. INTRODUCTION. Until 1980, fewer than one in 10 people in industrialized countries like the United States were obese.
Number of obese people in Europe has increased threefold over the last 20 years.
Among OECD countries, the United States is the most obese (36.2%). Today, these rates have doubled or tripled. This pattern is similar to findings from other studies from other developing countries 13-15,27. But a silent epidemic of obesity-related diseases—among them, cardiovascular diseases, stroke, and Type-2 diabetes—is also spreading rapidly across poor and middle-income countries, where such illnesses have been overshadowed by infectious diseases and undernutrition. Obesity is a significant public health concern affecting more than half a billion people worldwide.