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Overweight and obese (11, 13, 15 years)

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ChildAdolescentHealth
Indicator full name: Percentage of young people 11, 13 or 15 years of age with overweight or obesity using the WHO growth reference standards, by sex
Unit: %
Dimensions:
  • Age groups of 11, 13, and 15 year-olds (AGE_GRP_2)
  • Country/Area (COUNTRY/AREA)
  • Sex (SEX)
  • Statistically significant difference between genders (SIGNIF_GENDER)
  • Year of measure (YEAR)
Years data is available: 2002—2014
Last updated: 15 August 2023
Countries with no data (15): 
  • Andorra
  • Azerbaijan
  • Belarus
  • Bosnia and Herzegovina
  • Cyprus
  • Georgia
  • Kazakhstan
  • Kyrgyzstan
  • Monaco
  • Montenegro
  • San Marino
  • Serbia
  • Tajikistan
  • Turkmenistan
  • Uzbekistan
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  • Percentage of young people 13 years old with overweight or obesity using the WHO growth reference standards, by sex Percentage of young people 13 years old with overweight or obesity using the WHO growth reference standards, by sex (Bar chart)
  • Percentage of young people 15 years old with overweight or obesity using the WHO growth reference standards, by sex Percentage of young people 15 years old with overweight or obesity using the WHO growth reference standards, by sex (Bar chart)
  • Percentage of young people 11 years old with overweight or obesity using the WHO growth reference standards, by sex Percentage of young people 11 years old with overweight or obesity using the WHO growth reference standards, by sex (Bar chart)
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ChildAdolescentHealth
Child and Adolescent Health
Indicators: 20
Updated: 13 October 2025

The WHO Europe Child and Adolescent Health Database (CAHD) provides a set of statistics based on indicators related to the health and well-being of children and adolescents. The statistics were collated from a variety of databases as a joint effort between WHO program divisions and collaborating centres and partners. The database was constructed for the purpose of supporting the Child and Adolescent Health and Development Strategy (2015), providing the relevant information for monitoring progress on child and adolescent health indicators in the 53 member states of the WHO European Region.

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Source: Health Behavior in School-aged Children, www.hbsc.org. Young people aged 11, 13 or 15 years of age were asked how much they weigh without clothes and how tall they are without shoes, and to record these in country appropriate units (centimetres versus inches, pounds versus kilograms). These data were (re)coded in centimetres and kilograms, respectively, to compute the body mass index (BMI) as weight (kg) divided by height (m) 2 . The analysis presented here uses the WHO growth standards. Denmark excludes data from Greenland.
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Denmark
Denmark excludes data from Greenland.
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