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From: The ongoing nutrition transition thwarts long-term targets for food security, public health and environmental protection

Figure 2

With rising per-capita income, underweight declines and overweight increases, while the share of people with a healthy Body Mass Index (BMI) declines. The figure shows the estimated isoquants for the proportions of the population with specific Body Mass Index (BMI) by per-capita income (in US Dollar 2005 in purchase power parity) for males (left) and females (right) divided by age-groups into children of 0–14 years (top), working age adults of 15–59 years (middle) and retirement age adults of 60+ years (bottom). For children, we use standard deviations from WHO growth standards. Blue colors indicate underweight, yellow overweight, and red obesity.

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