Fig. 2: Velocity and prevalence of obesity in children and adolescents.
From: Obesity rise plateaus in developed nations and accelerates in developing nations
a,b, Velocity and prevalence of obesity in girls (a) and boys (b). The circular wheel plots show the year-on-year velocity of obesity from 1980 to 2024 by country. Each cell represents the velocity in one year. A positive velocity (red) indicates a year-on-year increase in obesity prevalence, whereas a negative (green) velocity indicates a year-on-year decrease. Years when no change in obesity was observed are coloured in white. Countries are labelled by their International Organization for Standardization (ISO) 3166-1 alpha-3 codes (Supplementary Note 1) and coloured by super-region. Countries are ordered by increasing 2024 velocity within each region. The top maps show the velocity of obesity in 2024 in each country, following the same colour scheme as the velocity wheel plots, and the bottom maps show the age-standardized prevalence of obesity in 2024. See Extended Data Fig. 3 for velocity of obesity in 2024 and its uncertainty by country, Extended Data Fig. 4 for a map of PP that velocity of obesity was positive in 2024, Supplementary Fig. 3 for trends in the prevalence of obesity by country and Supplementary Fig. 5 for trends in the velocity of obesity by country.
