Table 1.

Prevalence of overweight and obesity in Ethiopia after subgroup analysis by characteristics of the studies included

Subgroup	No of studies	Overweight (95% CI)	I2 and p value	No of studies	Obesity (95% CI)	I2 and p value
Year of study
Before 2015	6	17.49 (12.17 to 22.81)	(96.5%, p≤0.001)	7	3.74 (2.73 to 4.75)	(82.3%, p≤0.001)
After 2015	8	22.55 (16.57 to 28.54)	(98.2%, p≤0.001)	9	6.90 (4.89 to 8.92)	(95.8%, p≤0.001)
Residence
Urban	12	22.43 (17.76 to 27.10)	(97.4%, p≤0.001)	14	6.23 (4.92 to 7.54)	(92.6%, p≤0.001)
Rural	–	–	–	–	–	–
Both	2	10.15 (8.70 to 11.61)	(60.5%, p≥0.05)	2	1.93 (1.54 to 2.32)	(0.0%, p≥0.05)
Setting
Community based	9	19.46 (15.93 to 23.00)	(95.8%, p≤0.001)	10	5.13 (3.90 to 6.35)	(92.9%, p≤0.001)
Institution based	5	20.44 (16.69 to 24.19)	(98.9%, p≤0.001)	6	6.41 (3.79 to 9.03)	(94.8%, p≤0.001)
Sample size
<384	4	24.39 (6.71 to 42.08)	(98.7%, p≤0.001)	5	9.61 (3.94 to 15.28)	(94.8%, p≤0.001)
>384	10	19.34 (15.59 to 23.09)	(97.4%, p≤0.001)	11	4.55 (3.54 to 5.55)	(92.5%, p≤0.001)

*The terms are self explanatory and no footnotes are added.