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Review Article

Prevalence of Overweight and Obesity in Adolescents: A Systematic Review

Table 2

Description of overweight and obesity prevalence (%) along with total data by sex from each national study that was included in the review according to year of survey, study population, age range, and classification criteria used.


Continent	Country	Date of survey	Study population	Age (years)/school grade	Criteria	Overweight (%)			Obesity (%)			Reference
Continent	Country	Date of survey	Study population	Age (years)/school grade	Criteria	All	Boys	Girls	All	Boys	Girls	Reference

Africa	Seychelles	2004	School-based survey	7th, 10th	IOTF¹	12.0	9.5	14.3	5.1	4.2	6.0	Bovet et al., 2006 [16]
	South Africa	2008	2008 SA YRBS	13–19	IOTF¹	14.4	7.9	20.6	5.3	3.3	7.2	Reddy et al., 2010 [15]
	Tunisia	2004	Household-based survey	15–19	IOTF¹	12.4	11.0	14.1	2.6	1.9	3.2	Aounallah-Skhiri et al., 2008 [17]

America	Canada	2004	2004 CCHS	12–17	IOTF¹	19.8	21.2	18.4	9.4	11.1	7.4	Shields and Tremblay, 2010 [18]
					CDC-2000²	15.9	17.0	14.7	12.1	14.3	9.6
					WHO-2007³	20.8	21.9	19.6	12.4	15.1	9.4
	Mexico	2006	Household-based survey	12–18	IOTF¹	21.2	20.1	22.3	8.9	9.2	8.6	Bonvecchio et al., 2009 [19]
	USA	2007	2007 NSCH	10–17	CDC-2000²	15.2	15.3	15.2	16.4	19.2	13.5	Singh et al., 2010 [20]

Asia	Bahrain	2000	School-based survey	12–17	IOTF¹	20.0	15.3	24.5	16.4	14.9	17.9	Al-Sendi et al., 2003 [21]
	China	2002	2002 CNNHS	13–17	IOTF¹	4.6	4.6	4.6	0.6	0.7	0.5	Li et al., 2008 [22]
	Iran	2003-04	CASPIAN Study	10–18	IOTF¹	5.9	5.7	6.0	1.3	1.5	1.1	Kelishadi et al., 2008 [23]
	Iran	2003-04	CASPIAN Study	10–18	CDC-2000²	4.5	4.3	4.7	1.9	2.3	1.6	Kelishadi et al., 2008 [23]
	Israel	2003-04	MABAT Youth Survey	11–19	CDC-2000²	12.9	12.7	13.0	5.6	7.4	4.1	Nitzan Kaluski et al., 2009 [24]
	Jordan	2009	Household-based survey	13–18	IOTF¹	13.7	11.3	15.5	10.0	12.4	8.2	Khader et al., 2011 [25]
	Qatar	2003-04	School-based survey	12–17	IOTF¹	23.8	28.6	18.9	6.3	7.9	4.7	Bener, 2006 [26]
	Saudi Arabia	2005	Household-based survey	13–18	CDC-2000²	17.9	16.5	19.6	7.0	8.2	5.5	El Mouzan et al., 2010 [27]
	Saudi Arabia	2005	Household-based survey	13–18	WHO-2007³	16.0	13.6	18.4	10.6	11.2	10.0	El Mouzan et al., 2010 [27]
	Taiwan	2003	School-based survey	10–18	IOTF¹	16.3	18.4	14.2	6.2	8.1	4.2	Liou et al., 2009 [28]
	United Arab Emirates	2009-10	Household-based survey	11–18	IOTF¹	—	16.2	20.5	—	11.7	19.7	Ng et al., 2011 [29]

Europe	Cyprus	1999-00	School-based survey	10–17	IOTF¹	18.9	21.3	16.5	5.8	7.1	4.5	Savva et al., 2002 [30]
	Czech Republic	2005	Lifestyle and Obesity Study	6–17	IOTF¹	12.3	16.6	8.0	1.4	1.7	1.0	Kunesova et al., 2007 [31]
	Germany	2008	CrescNet database	12–16	IOTF¹	18.2	19.3	17.0	6.2	7.6	4.6	Blüher et al., 2011 [32]
	Greece	2003	School-based survey	13–19	IOTF¹	18.3	23.3	14.0	4.3	6.1	2.7	Tzotzas et al., 2008 [33]
	Italy	2002	HBSC Study	11, 13, 15	IOTF¹	15.6	20.9	10.6	2.3	3.5	1.2	Vieno et al., 2005 [34]
	Republic of Ireland	2003	School-based survey	11–16	IOTF¹	18.5	17.8	19.2	5.8	5.6	6.1	Whelton et al., 2007 [35]
	Northern Ireland	2003	School-based survey	11–15	IOTF¹	18.2	18.5	17.8	5.9	6.0	5.7	Whelton et al., 2007 [35]
	Portugal	2008	School-based survey	10–18	IOTF¹	17.4	17.7	17.0	5.2	5.8	4.6	Sardinha et al., 2011 [36]
	Portugal	2008	School-based survey	10–18	WHO-2007	21.8	20.4	23.1	9.9	10.3	9.6	Sardinha et al., 2011 [36]
	Sweden	2001	School-based survey	10, 13, 16	IOTF¹	15.8	14.6	16.9	4.4	5.0	3.6	Ekblom et al., 2004 [37]

Oceania	Australia	2004	2004 SPANS	8th, 10th	IOTF¹	17.9	19.4	16.2	5.3	6.7	3.6	Booth et al., 2007 [38]
	New Zealand	2007	Youth’07 Survey	13–17	IOTF¹	24.0	23.3	24.7	10.2	10.8	9.5	Utter et al., 2010 [39]
	New Zealand	2007	Youth’07 Survey	13–17	WHO-2007	25.9	25.9	26.0	13.5	14.6	12.1	Utter et al., 2010 [39]

Overweight and obesity, all adolescents with BMI-for-age ≥25 kg/m² and <30 kg/m² and ≥30 kg/m², respectively, according to the IOTF [6].
²Overweight and obesity, all adolescents with BMI-for-age ≥P85th and <P95th and ≥P95th, respectively, according to the CDC [5].
³Overweight and obesity, all adolescents with BMI-for-age >+1SD and <+2SD and >+2SD, respectively, according to the WHO [7].
IOTF: International Obesity Task Force; CDC: Center for Disease Control and Prevention; WHO: World Health Organization; 2008 SA YRBS: 2008 South African National Youth Risk Behaviour; 2004 CCHS: 2004 Canadian Community Health Survey; 2007 NSCH: National Survey of Children’s Health; 2002 CNNHS: 2002 China National Nutrition and Health Survey; CASPIAN Study: Childhood and Adolescence Surveillance and Prevention of Adult Non-communicable disease; HBSC: Health Behaviour in School-aged Children; 2004 SPANS: 2004 NSW Schools Physical Activity and Nutrition Survey.