Table 4.

Estimates of the proportion of obese children and adolescents aged 5–19 years, by region, published by the Non-Communicable Diseases Risk Factor Collaboration (NCD-RisC; see Table 1)

Region	Sex	Estimated % obese children and adolescents in 1975 (uncertainty interval)	Estimated % obese children and adolescents in 2016 (uncertainty interval)
Sub-Saharan Africa	Female	0.1 (0.0–0.3)	3.2 (2.2–4.4)
	Male	0.0 (0.0–0.2)	1.7 (0.9–2.8)
South Asia	Female	0.0 (0.0–0.1)	1.8 (1.0–3.1)
	Male	0.0 (0.0–0.2)	2.6 (1.4–4.5)
East and Southeast Asia	Female	0.1 (0.0–0.2)	5.9 (4.2–8.1)
	Male	0.2 (0.0–0.7)	12.1 (9.0–15.7)
High-income Asia-Pacific	Female	0.5 (0.3–0.9)	2.7 (2.0–3.6)
	Male	1.5 (0.8–2.8)	7.5 (5.9–9.3)
Latin America and the Caribbean	Female	1.6 (0.4–3.8)	10.4 (7.8–13.6)
	Male	1.8 (0.3–4.9)	13.4 (10.0–17.2)
North Africa, the Middle East and Central Asia	Female	0.9 (0.1–2.5)	11.3 (8.1–15.1)
	Male	0.8 (0.1–2.8)	12.0 (8.6–15.9)
High-income Western countries	Female	3.8 (2.1–6.1)	13.3 (10.3–16.6)
	Male	4.1 (2.3–6.4)	16.8 (13.2–20.6)
Central and Eastern Europe	Female	0.8 (0.1–2.8)	5.0 (2.8–8.3)
	Male	1.1 (0.1–3.5)	10.1 (6.2–15.6)
Oceania	Female	0.7 (0.1–3.9)	10.7 (4.2–21.0)
	Male	0.7 (0.0–3.7)	9.9 (3.5–20.5)