Trends in Overweight and Obesity among U.S. Adults, 1962–2010 ■ Overweight ■ Obesity ■ Extreme obesity
Obesity Prevalence by State 1985
Obesity Prevalence by State 2008
Since the early 1960s, the prevalence of obesity among adults more than doubled, increasing from 13.4 to 35.7 percent in U.S. adults age 20 and older.
Obesity prevalence remained mostly stable from 1999 to 2010, but has increased slightly, yet in a statistically significant way, among men overall, as well as among black women and Mexican American women.
Among children and adolescents, the prevalence of obesity also increased in the 1980s and 1990s but is now mostly stable at about 17 percent.