Obesity Rate In Malaysia

Science advisor to the prime minister tan sri zakri abdul hamid said new findings from british medical.

Obesity rate in malaysia. Obesity statistics in malaysia are getting scarier by the day. According to the world population review 2019 malaysia has the highest prevalence of obesity among adults in southeast asia at 15 6 percent followed by brunei 14 1 percent thailand 10 0 percent and indonesia 6 9 percent. Obesity statistics from the malaysian national health and morbidity survey in 2006 showed that 43 of malaysian adults were obese or overweight at that time. In comparison malaysia s overweight and obese rates stood at 29 4 percent and 15 1 percent respectively in 2011.

And these obesity statistics showed that overweight. The figures are grim in malaysia too. According to the world population review 2019 malaysia has the highest prevalence of obesity among adults in south east asia at 15 6 per cent followed by brunei 14 1 per cent thailand 10 0 per cent and indonesia 6 9 per cent. Among malaysian obese males obesity linked diseases reduce productive years by six to 11 years next to the philippines.

Country rank obesity rate 2016 nauru 1 61 00 cook islands 2 55 90 palau 3 55 30 marshall islands 4 52 90 tuvalu 5 51 60 niue 6 50 00 tonga 7 48 20 samoa 8 47 30 kiribati 9 46 00 federated states of micronesia 10 45 80 kuwait 11. Malaysia is recorded as the highest number of obese rates in the south east asia with prevalence of obesity was at 13 3 per cent while overweight was at 38 5 per cent farezza hanum rashid 2017. The world health organization who survey in 2010 ranked malaysia as sixth in asia with the highest adult obesity rate. In the period of five years vietnam s obesity rate increased to 38 percent whereas indonesia and malaysia were at 33 percent and 27 percent respectively.

Malaysia has been rated as the highest among asian countries for obesity. Nhms 2019 defined overweight as having a body mass index bmi of more than 25kg. Based on a 2019 statistic from the world population review vietnam still has the lowest share of obese persons at 2 1 percent far below malaysia s 15 6 percent and brunei s 14 1 percent. The figures are grim in malaysia too.