Europe
Between the 1970s and the 2000s, rates of obesity in most European countries have increased. During the 1990s and 2000s, the 27 countries making up the EU reported rates of obesity from 10–27% in men and from 10–38% in women.
Most recent statistics show that, among the 19 EU Member States for which data are available, the proportion of obese people in the adult population varied in 2008/9 between 8,0% (Romania) and 23,9% (UK) for women and between 7,6% (Romania) and 24,7% (Malta) for men.
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