Health Statistics: Obesity

Nutrition and physical activity affect body weight and can contribute to obesity. Examine measures related to these factors including able-bodied (ages 65+), SNAP Reach (ages 60+), overweight or obesity (youth), physical inactivity, obesity, obesity (ages 65+), obesity (women), exercise, and fruit and vegetable consumption.

Obesity is influenced by a number of social and economic factors, See more about household characteristics that contribute to health. Includes measures on children in poverty, students experiencing homelessness, food insecurity, severe housing problems, obesity, unemployment, poverty, per capita income, concentrated disadvantage, and high school completion.

Obesity is a leading contributor to preventable conditions that can result in illness and death. Explore these measures including high blood pressure, premature death, frequent physical distress, diabetes, high cholesterol, obesity, cancer, cardiovascular diseases, and chronic kidney disease.

Explore national- and state-level data from America's Health Rankings.

Explore national- and state-level data from America's Health Rankings.

Set of surveillance indicators that enables public health professionals and policymakers to retrieve uniformly defined state and selected metropolitan-level data for chronic diseases and risk factors that have a substantial impact on public health.

Data, trends, maps and reports.

FastStats from the National Center for Health Statistics.

Interactive database that provides information about the health status and behaviors of Americans, state-by-state, via clickable maps, charts, and tables. Topics include obesity, breastfeeding, physical activity, and other health behaviors and related environmental and policy data from multiple sources.

From Our World in Data.

Fact Sheet from the World Health Organization.

Statista

T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Harvard University

Statista

The World Obesity Federation