India, Sept. 14 -- New Delhi - India is witnessing a rapid rise in overweight and obesity across all age groups, from its youngest children to adolescents and adults, experts cautioned at a UNICEF-organized national media roundtable on healthy diets held here today.
According to UNICEF's Child Nutrition Global Report 2025, launched recently, obesity has, for the first time, surpassed underweight globally as the most common form of malnutrition among school-aged children and adolescents. Today, one in ten children worldwide, nearly 188 million, live with obesity. Once considered a condition of affluence, obesity is now spreading rapidly in low and middle-income countries, including in India.
Countries in South Asia had the lowest prevalenc...