Reduce the proportion of adults with obesity — Data - Healthy People 2030

Status: Getting worse

Most Recent Data:
41.8 percent (2017-20) *

Target:
36.0 percent *

Desired Direction:
Decrease desired

Baseline:
38.6 percent of adults aged 20 years and over had obesity in 2013-16 *

* Age adjusted to the year 2000 standard population.

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Population	2013-16	2017-20
Total	38.6 CI 36.7 / 40.5 SE 0.946	41.8 CI 39.5 / 44.1 SE 1.179

Data Source: National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES), CDC/NCHS

Obesity among adults by

#: Standard errors and confidence intervals are not available for this population group.

*: Age adjusted to the year 2000 standard population.

◊: Unless otherwise noted, data represent "percent, 20+ years"

†: Target is not applicable for this demographic group.

DSU: Data do not meet the criteria for statistical reliability, data quality, or confidentiality.

DNA: Data have not been analyzed.

DNC: Data for specific population not collected.

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