Fig. 4: Change in the urban–rural BMI difference from 1990 to 2020.
From: Diminishing benefits of urban living for children and adolescents’ growth and development
a,b, Change in urban–rural difference in age-standardized mean BMI for girls (a) and boys (b) in relation to change in age-standardized mean rural BMI. See the caption for Fig. 1 for a description of the contents of this figure. See Extended Data Fig. 3 for urban–rural differences in age-standardized mean BMI and their change over time shown as maps, together with uncertainties in the estimates. See Supplementary Fig. 4b for results at ages 5, 10, 15 and 19 years. We did not estimate the difference between rural and urban BMI for countries classified as entirely urban (Bermuda, Kuwait, Nauru and Singapore) or entirely rural (Tokelau).
