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Table 2.1 Prevalence of overweight and obesity compiled from studies conducted in tropical countries

Overweight Obesity

Year(s) of
survey

Reference
system

Country Source Age Boys Girls Overall Boys Girls Overall

2005-2007 12-18 a Bolivia P´rez-Cueto, Botti, and Verbeke (2009) - - 13.2 - - 2.5 IOTF

2002-2003 10-19 a Brazil Instituno Brasileiro de Geografia and

Estat´stica (2006)

- - 16.7 - - 2.3 IOTF

10-17 a Colombia Instituto colombiano de bienestar familiar (ICBF)

(2006)

2005 - - 10.3 - - - CDC

12-18 a Ecuador Y´pez (2005) 2006 - - 13.7 - - 8.5 MUST

Fiji Utter et al. (2008) 2005-2006 12-18 13 20 - 4 6 - IOTF

10-15 a India Unnithan and Syamakumari (2008) NA 21.3 16.4 - 6.7 3.8 - NA

10-17 a India Bharati, Pal, and Bharati (2008) NA - - 3.1 - - 1.2 CDC

Indonesia Julia, van Weissenbruch, Prawirohartono,

Surjono, and Delemarre-van de Waal (2008)

1999 6-8 to

11-13

- - 5.3% - - 2.7% NA

2004 - - 8.6% - - 3.7% NA

6-12 a

Malaysia Ismail et al. (2009) 2001 10.9 11.1 11.0 12.1 7.2 9.7 WHO2

2008 12.4 13.1 12.8 17.7 9.6 13.7

18 a Institute for Public Health, National Health

and Morbidity Survey (2011)

2011 < - - - 7.6 4.6 6.1 CDC

2010-2011 0.5-12 a
(Urban)

Poh et al. (2013) 9.0 10.5 9.7 15.1 10.2 12.7 WHO1,

WHO2

0.5-12 a
(Rural)

10.5 9.2 9.9 9.9 6.5 8.4