Table 2.

Demographic and overweight/obesity differences by year, adult refugees entering the United States 2009–2017 (n = 334,746)

%	2009 (n = 41,483) (%)	2010 (n = 40,000) (%)	2011 (n = 30,562) (%)	2012 (n = 40,571) (%)	2013 (n = 37,159) (%)	2014 (n = 41,347) (%)	2015 (n = 35,065) (%)	2016 (n = 45,744) (%)	2017 (n = 22,815) (%)	P-value1
Sex
Female	47.0	45.0	45.7	43.2	44.0	46.1	46.4	48.2	48.6	< 0.0001
Male	53.0	55.0	54.3	56.8	56.0	53.9	53.6	51.8	51.4
Age category (years)
18–29	42.6	44.3	46.8	44.6	41.8	41.3	41.6	41.1	42.6
30–39	24.9	25.1	24.0	25.1	25.6	25.7	28.2	28.7	30.3
40–49	15.7	15.0	14.1	14.9	16.0	15.7	15.4	15.7	13.8	< 0.0001
50–59	8.6	8.3	7.9	8.3	8.9	9.1	8.2	8.2	7.6
60–69	5.3	4.9	4.8	4.7	5.1	5.4	4.3	4.4	3.8
≥ 70	2.9	2.5	2.4	2.4	2.6	2.8	2.2	1.9	1.8
Nationality
Afghanistan	0.4	0.7	0.7	0.7	0.9	0.9	1.6	3.6	27.2
Bhutan	22.5	19.4	31.6	23.4	15.6	11.8	10.1	7.2	8.4
Burma	24.7	23.4	29.7	23.6	23.0	22.6	28.4	13.5	8.6
Burundi	0.5	0.6	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.2	1.6	0.8	0.3
Dem. Rep. Congo	0.9	3.3	1.8	2.3	3.2	5.7	10.7	18.2	10.6	< 0.0001
Cuba	6.0	5.7	3.4	4.0	5.6	5.0	1.4	0.3	0.1
Eritrea	2.3	4.8	4.6	3.4	2.0	1.6	2.3	2.4	4.7
Ethiopia	0.6	1.1	1.3	1.3	1.2	0.9	1.1	1.7	1.2
Iran	9.1	5.5	5.4	3.9	5.1	5.7	6.8	6.8	5.1
Iraq	27.0	28.6	13.5	25.8	29.0	31.0	17.3	14.1	12.0
Somalia	4.0	5.5	6.0	8.3	10.6	12.0	10.7	11.1	5.8
Sudan	0.9	0.7	0.8	2.4	3.3	1.2	2.4	1.9	1.6
Syria	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.3	2.8	13.9	6.3
Ukraine	0.9	0.7	0.9	0.5	0.3	1.0	2.9	4.6	8.1
Overweight/obese2	36.4	37.2	28.3	36.3	41.0	43.7	40.6	44.8	47.3	< 0.0001

Adults, non-pregnant women; removed extreme height and weight and missing values for body mass index (BMI)

¹Chi-square test

²Overweight (BMI 25.0 to < 30.0) obese (BMI ≥ 30) thus overweight/obese refers to subjects with BMI ≥ 25