Prevalence of obesity in children and adolescents in the EU in 2016

( World Obesity Federation 2019)

Country	Children 5-9 years old		Adolescents 10-19 years old
	Boys	Girls	Boys	Girls
Belgium	9.8	7.4	7.2	4.9
Bulgaria	17.1	10.2	11.8	6.6
Czechia	15.7	8.8	10.7	5.3
Denmark	11.9	6.6	8.2	4.0
Germany	13.7	9.0	9.8	5.7
Estonia	10.3	6.5	6.3	3.7
Ireland	13.6	11.3	8.6	7.8
Greece	21.2	14.2	14.4	8.8
Spain	17.5	12.1	10.6	6.3
France	11.7	8.9	7.4	6.4
Croatia	18.3	11.6	11.6	6.1
Italy	20.5	14.9	11.5	8.1
Cyprus	19.6	12.0	13.6	7.2
Latvia	11.5	6.5	7.5	4.1
Lithuania	11.7	6.5	7.1	3.8
Luxembourg	13.8	8.4	8.8	5.1
Hungary	17.3	11.2	11.9	7.1
Malta	19.7	14.2	13.9	9.6
Netherlands	11.1	7.1	7.1	5.0
Austria	13.0	7.8	10.3	5.1
Poland	16.8	8.0	10.4	3.8
Portugal	15.0	14.4	8.7	8.2
Romania	13.5	8.2	9.2	4.0
Slovenia	14.6	10.3	8.5	6.0
Slovakia	13.6	7.7	8.7	4.6
Finland	15.6	7.8	10.8	4.5
Sweden	10.3	6.1	7.7	3.9

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Originally published	23 Feb 2021
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Prevalence of obesity in children and adolescents in the EU in 2016

Prevalence of obesity in children and adolescents in the EU in 2016

Dairy products

Disability-Adjusted Life Years (DALYs)/100 000 attributable to diet low in milk

Deaths/100 000 attributable to diet low in milk