The World Health Organization (WHO) is speaking up about the “alarming” number of obese children below five years old, which is reported to be at 41 million, the Associated Press reports.
According to the news outlet, WHO tapped the Commission for Ending Childhood (ECHO) to make a report about the growing number of overweight and obese children.
According to ECHO’s report, as per Reuters, the number of obese kids in low- and middle-income countries is higher than high-income countries. In 2014, the number of obese children inflated in a span of 24 years from 7.5 million (1990) to 15.5 million (2014). ECHO also identified Asia as the region that has over 50 percent of overweight kids while 25 percent goes to Africa, where Libya, Egypt, Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia and Botswana have the highest percentage. Africa’s number of overweight kids experienced a sharp increase from 5.4 million (1990) to 10.3 million (2014).
