By 2050, more than half of the world's population will suffer from obesity

By 2050, more than half of the adult world population will suffer from obesity. Scientists from the GBD collaboration - Global Burden of Disease - analyzed how obesity and overweight rates changed from 1990 to 2021. It turned out that during this period, the share of people with obesity and overweight increased by 155.1% among men (1 billion people) and by 104.9% among women (1.1 billion). Among the leaders in the rise of these rates is China, with problems identified in about 402 million people. India is in second place (108 million), followed by the USA (172 million). Based on this data, the researchers made a grim forecast. They suggested that in 25 years, more than half of the planet's population - 3.8 billion people - will suffer from the specified problems.