Obesity In Malaysia 2019 Statistics

The office of chief statistician malaysia department of statistics malaysia 5 december 2016 contact person.

Obesity in malaysia 2019 statistics. One of the consequences is that the prevalence of diabetes among adults aged 18 years and above has increased from 11 6 to 17 5 over a period of 9 years from 2006 to 2015. Dr lee said that 47 7 malaysians had high cholesterol with 22 being. Farhan not his real name was taken to a private hospital by his parents to seek treatment for an infection on his right leg. Findings from the 2015 national health and morbidity survey.

In 2019 an estimated 38 2 million children under the age of 5 years were overweight or obese. Deputy health minister datuk seri dr hilmi yahaya recently said. Malaysia has the highest rate of obesity and overweight among asian countries with 64 of male and 65 of female population being either obese or overweight. Once considered a high income country problem overweight and obesity are now on the rise in low and middle income countries particularly in urban settings.

The worldwide prevalence of obesity nearly tripled between 1975 and 2016. Bmc public health 2017 17 733. 514 med j malaysia vol 74 no 6 december 2019 in malaysia ncds were estimated to account for 74 of all deaths in 2016 2 the prevalence of obesity increased from 4 4 in 1996 to 12 3 in 2004 10 11 the national health and morbidity surveys nhmss carried out in 2006 2011 and 2015 showed further increase in the prevalence of overweight. He added that obesity was also prevalent between the 20 and 24 years old 12 and 25 and 29 years old 18 3 age groups.

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. Ho mei kei public relation officer corporate and user services division department of statistics malaysia tel. Physical activity and overweight obesity among malaysian adults.

Infographic on principal causes of death malaysia 2014.