Official Statistics

Obesity Profile: November 2024 update

Obesity Profile online data tool, update with data from the National Child Measurement Programme (NCMP) for the academic year 2023 to 2024.

Applies to England

Documents

Obesity Profile: November 2024 update

Obesity Profile: supporting data, November 2024

Details

The Obesity Profile displays data from the National Child Measurement Programme (NCMP) showing the prevalence of underweight, healthy weight, overweight, obesity and severe obesity, at upper and lower-tier local authority, integrated care board (ICB), region and England level over time, for children in reception (aged 4 to 5 years) and year 6 (aged 10 to 11 years).

The Obesity Profile also presents inequalities in child obesity prevalence by sex, deprivation quintile and ethnic group for England, regions and local authority areas.

The ‘Child prevalence small area data’ topic displays trend data on the prevalence of overweight (including obesity) and obesity for middle super output areas (MSOAs) and electoral wards, with comparator data for local authorities and England. The prevalence estimates use 3 years of NCMP data combined to produce as robust an indicator as possible at small area level.

This update also includes the publication of the national, regional and local authority patterns and trends in child obesity data slide packs, showing the 2023 to 2024 NCMP data, available in the ‘Reports’ data view of the Obesity Profile.

The Obesity Profile also includes indicators on the prevalence of overweight and obesity in adults, as well as contextual indicators for several topic areas that are determinants of or related to child and adult obesity.

Details of the latest release can be found in ‘Obesity Profile: statistical commentary, November 2024’.

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Published 5 November 2024

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