India ranks second globally for children who are overweight and living with obesity: report

Key Highlights

• Though the deadline is now being extended to 2030, most countries remain off track, and India is no exception, it said, in a press release.
• Over 200 million school-age children aged five to 19 living with overweight and obesity are concentrated in just 10 countries across the world.
• By the end of 2025, eight countries were projected to have more than 10 million children with high Body Mass Index (BMI).
• China, India and the United States each had over 10 million children living with obesity.
• India stood second only to China in the number of children with high BMI (41 million high BMI; 14 million obesity).