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31 Aug 2018 - PDF updated, page vi. 1978-1981 birth cohort changed from 19.7% to 18.7%.
Overweight and obesity in Australia: a birth cohort analysis
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Topic: Overweight & obesity
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Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (2017) Overweight and obesity in Australia: a birth cohort analysis, AIHW, Australian Government, accessed 01 May 2024.
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Australian Institute of Health and Welfare. (2017). Overweight and obesity in Australia: a birth cohort analysis. Canberra: AIHW.
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Australian Institute of Health and Welfare. Overweight and obesity in Australia: a birth cohort analysis. AIHW, 2017.
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Australian Institute of Health and Welfare. Overweight and obesity in Australia: a birth cohort analysis. Canberra: AIHW; 2017.
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Australian Institute of Health and Welfare 2017, Overweight and obesity in Australia: a birth cohort analysis, AIHW, Canberra.
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Adults in 2014–15 were significantly more likely to be obese than adults of the same age 20 years earlier at almost any given age. At age 18–21, 15.2% of those born in 1994–1997 were obese, almost double the proportion of those born in 1974–1977 at the same age (8.0%). Children and adolescents in 2014–15 were also significantly more likely to be overweight or obese at ages 10–13 and 14–17 than those of the same age 20 years earlier.
Additional overweight and obesity data are reported in 2 other AIHW products: A picture of overweight and obesity in Australia and An interactive insight into overweight and obesity in Australia.
- ISBN: 978-1-76054-232-0
- Cat. no: PHE 215
- Pages: 25
Findings from this report:
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Adults in 2014–15 were more likely to be obese than those of the same age 20 years earlier at all but 1 age group.
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At age 18–21, 15.2% of those born in 1994–1997 were obese, compared with 8.0% of those born in 1974–1977.
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Adults in 2014–15 were more likely to be abdominally obese than those of the same age 20 years earlier at every age.
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At age 18–21, 16.5% of those born in 1994–1997 were abdominally obese, compared with 7.2% of those born in 1974–1977.