Prevalence and Trends of Adult Obesity in the US, 1999–2012

Table 1

Unweighted sample sizes and weighted percentages for adults aged 20 years and older: NHANES 2011-2012.

	All races/ethnicities	Non-Hispanic White	Non-Hispanic African American	Hispanic
Both genders	5,181 (100.00%)	1,899 (66.62%)	1,364 (11.48%)	1,037 (14.16%)
Male	2,585 (48.62%)	961 (35.32%)	662 (5.59%)	515 (7.74%)
Female	2,596 (51.38%)	938 (36.89%)	702 (6.85%)	522 (7.62%)

NHANES denotes National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey. Percentage is weighed using NHANES sampling weights to be representative of the US adult population in 2011-2012. The sum of sample sizes for non-Hispanic White, non-Hispanic African American, and Hispanic is not equal to the total sample size because of other races/ethnicities not shown in the table.