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You know the health risks of being overweight, so too many children become overweight in your mind.","They know that too many children are overweight but they overestimate it by more than four times.","Source: UNICEF, WHO and World Bank","The correct answer is a global estimate for 2019. The data is taken from nationally representative household surveys which are done infrequently (typically every 3 to 5 years) and then compiled into a report [2]. This report was published in March 2020. The big differences between the three answer options here guarantee that even if this figure underestimates the issue, we still have a large enough margin for the two wrong answers to not possibly be correct.\n\n[1]  [UNICEF, WHO and the World Bank](https:\u002F\u002Fdata.unicef.org\u002Fresources\u002Fjoint-child-malnutrition-estimates-interactive-dashboard-2020\u002F )  \n[2]  [WHO\u002FUNICEF\u002FWB full report](https:\u002F\u002Fwww.who.int\u002Fpublications\u002Fi\u002Fitem\u002F9789240025257)  \n[3]  [Oxfam\u002FInstitute of development studies](https:\u002F\u002Fopendocs.ids.ac.uk\u002Fopendocs\u002Fbitstream\u002Fhandle\u002F20.500.12413\u002F12190\u002FPrecariousLives_Online.pdf?sequence=6&isAllowed=y )  \n[4]  We consulted five independent experts for this question, including Harry Rutter of the University of Bath and Wolfgang Ahrens of the Leibniz Institute for Prevention Research and Epidemiology.","The instinct for sugar and fat is very strong in most of us, that’s how we survived prehistoric times. When there was food, we ate as much as we could. But today we have an abundance of food and children being overweight is a growing problem. We also have an abundance of sensational news, which makes us easily get an overdramatized worldview. \n\n### Why is it a problem if many are wrong about this?\nMany people answer that almost half of all children are overweight when the true number is closer to 6%. Such bingeing on dramatic news stories is just as harmful as the bingeing on sugar and fat. It makes us less functional when it comes to solving problems. Where would you even begin to solve a problem that affects almost half of the world’s children? 6% of children on the other hand, while still a lot of children, seems a smaller (and easier) problem to solve. \n\n### Why are many wrong about this?\nWe have seen reports about the numbers of overweight children and we know it’s a big problem, so it gets inflated in our minds. \n\n### Do people underestimate the amount of underweight children?\nPeople tend to overestimate all kinds of unusual problematic conditions. Many people seem to assume that half of all children are overweight, and the other half are underweight. Of course this is impossible, there would be almost no children at a normal, healthy weight if this were true! In fact, 85% of children are what is considered a healthy weight. \n\n### Is the amount of overweight children very different across regions?\nThere are huge differences, but even in the countries with the highest share of overweight children, their percentage is still lower than what most people believe the world figure is. See [UNICEF map of overweight children](https:\u002F\u002Finfogram.com\u002F1pmq0j9gv7jmqmf3ee53xv6ek1izrmpd7el).\n\n ### How common is being overweight among older children?\nIn children 5-19 years, levels of overweight and obesity is higher: roughly 18%. In 1975 only 4% in that age group were overweight or obese.\n\n### Why are more children overweight nowadays?\nIn some ways the story of overweight children is a burden of the success of global development. The number of overweight children grew worldwide because billions of people escaped extreme poverty and started being able to afford more than enough food and sweets. When people start getting some money, they tend to spend it on status food like meat, fast foods and sweets that are not so good for them. Fast food is widely available and often targets the vulnerable markets with cheap, low nutrition foods that drive obesity rates. At the same time, for several different reasons, children have become less physically active.\n\n### What does overweight mean, exactly?\nOverweight is not just measuring a person's weight, but it also takes into account that person's height. Those two numbers are combined into a measure called body mass index (BMI), which make it possible to  compare body weight across people of very different heights. \n\n### Is overweight the same as obesity?\nObesity is higher.  \n\n### If people learn the problem is smaller, will they take it less seriously then?\nWe are by no means trying to downplay the significance of these global trends in overweight children. Instead, we show these numbers to highlight that the problem is one that can be approached and worked on without losing hope that it is completely out of control and impossible to solve.\n","Overdramatic overweight"]