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Percentage of Male Children Meeting Criteria for Overweight by Country‡
Percentage of Female Children Meeting Criteria for Overweight by Country‡
‡ Data source: International Task Obesity Task Force (2009), except for Russia (Wang, Monteiro, & Popkin, 2002), Israel and Lithuania (Lissau, et al., 2004).
+BMI percentile calculated for most countries, including the US, using IOTF cut-offs (Cole, 2000).
