In 2020, around 28 percent of adults aged 18 years and older in Canada were obese, while 36 percent were overweight. Although the percentage of overweight adults stayed about the same from 2015 to 2020, the percentage of obese adults in the same time period increased by about two percentage points. In 2020, there were almost eight million adults in Canada who were obese, while the number of adults who were overweight had reached almost ten million.
All figures are annual estimates.
Body mass index (BMI) is a method of classifying body weight according to health risk. According to the World Health Organization (WHO) and Health Canada guidelines, health risk levels are associated with each of the following BMI categories: normal weight = least health risk; underweight and overweight = increased health risk; obese, class I = high health risk; obese, class II = very high health risk; obese, class III = extremely high health risk.
As a result of the 2015 redesign, Canadian Community Health Survey (CCHS) has a new collection strategy, a new sample design, and has undergone major content revisions. With all these factors taken together, caution should be taken when comparing data from previous cycles to data released for the 2015 cycle onwards.
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