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  • Dataset | 19 Mar 2025
Table 6: Economic burden of pre-obesity or obesity in childhood or adolescence (increased total lifetime costs)
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Economic burden (in 2022 SEK) of pre-obesity or obesity in childhood or adolescence. The values refer to the increased total lifetime costs for a child (or adolescent) with pre-obesity or obesity relative to a child (or adolescent) with healthy weight.

Source: IHE 2022 (pdf)   

  ...pre-obesity... obesity
Increased costs relative to a child of healthy weight (in 2022 SEK) of a child having...MalesSEK 147 000SEK 257 000
FemalesSEK 152 000SEK 429 000
Increased costs relative to an adolescent of healthy weight (in 2022 SEK) of an adolescent having...MalesSEK 210 000SEK 604 000
FemalesSEK 469 000SEK 641 000