New Delhi, March 4 -- India could have over 440 million obese and overweight people by 2050, the second highest in the world after China, while the US, Brazil and Nigeria will rank third, fourth and fifth, respectively.

The study expects that nearly 60 per cent of adults and a third of all children across the globe will be overweight or obese by 2050 if the governments do not take any action, a study said.

It is estimated that nearly 3.8 billion adults will be overweight or obese in 15 years, while a121 per cent increase in obesity among children and adolescents is expected. Nearly a third of the obese young population will reside majorly in North Africa, the Middle East, Latin America and the Caribbean by 2050.

More than half of the o...