Prevalence of Overweight and Obesity among Primary School Children Aged 8–13 Years in Dar es Salaam City, Tanzania

Table 1

Prevalence of underweight, overweight, and obesity among primary school children aged 8–13 years in Dar es Salaam ().

Prevalence		Underweight	Normal weight	Overweight	Obese
By age group
Age of 8–10 years	939	2.5%	64%	24%	9.5%
Age of 11–13 years	842	9.9%	78.6%	7.8%	3.9%
Prevalence by sex
Male	753	7.0%	76.0%	12.1%	4.9%
Female	1028	5.5%	67.8%	18.7%	8.0%
By type of school
Private	678	3.2%	63.3%	22.1%	11.4%
Public	1103	8.0%	76.2%	12.1%	3.8%
Total	1781	6.2%	71.3%	15.9%	6.7%