Table 2.

Correlation between overweight, obesity, BMI and HDI in Eastern Mediterranean Regional countries in 2018

Index		HDI	Life expectancy at birth	Expected years of schooling	Mean years of schooling	Estimated gross national income per capita	GNI per capita
Male
	Overweight (%)	0.721 (<0.001)	0.842 (<0.001)	0.568 (0.009)	0.516 (0.024)	0.601 (0.005)	0.567 (0.009)
	Obesity (%)	0.714 (0.001)	0.795 (<0.001)	0.559 (0.010)	0.446 (0.056)	0.703 (0.001)	0.666 (0.001)
	BMI (kg/m2)	0.549 (0.015)	0.683 (0.001)	0.385 (0.093)	0.372 (0.116)	0.583 (0.007)	0.559 (0.010)
Female
	Overweight (%)	0.615 (0.005)	0.761 (<0.001)	0.713 (<0.001)	0.552 (0.014)	0.394 (0.086)	0.467 (0.038)
	Obesity (%)	0.617 (0.005)	0.719 (<0.001)	0.710 (<0.001)	0.508 (0.026)	0.428 (0.060)	0.511 (0.021)
	BMI (kg/m2)	0.436 (0.062)	0.545 (0.011)	0.463 (0.040)	0.303 (0.207)	0.374 (0.104)	0.418 (0.066)

The value in parentheses is presented as p-value.

BMI, body mass index; HDI, Human Development Index; GNI, gross national income.