Fig. 8From: The epidemiological burden of obesity in childhood: a worldwide epidemic requiring urgent actionDivision of the number of girls and boys aged 5–19 years with obesity in 1975, by country. Estimates of obesity for (a) girls and (b) boys were published by the Non-Communicable Diseases Risk Factor Collaboration (NCD-RisC) using the World Health Organization growth reference [47] (see Table 1)Back to article page