No. 1 in underweight population, India among top 5 in obesity

India and China continue to have the largest number of underweight people in the world, both the countries have also broken into the top five in terms of obesity, a new study published in The Lancet jorunal has found.

With 102 million men and 101 million women underweight, India leads the world in being home to over 40% of the global underweight population.
China is a distant second with about 8% of underweight men and over 12% of underweight women.

However, India has also seen a surge in obesity . It had 0.4 million obese men, or 1.3% of the global obese popula tion in 1975, but in 2014, it zoomed into the fifth position with 9.8 million obese men, or 3.7% of the global population.Among women,
India has jumped to the third rank with 20 million obese women (5.3% of global population).
China has followed a si milar trajectory to In dia when it comes to obesity, rising from 13th rank in 1975 for men and 10th among women to the first rank in 2014 for both men and women. It now has the most number of obese persons in the world edging out the US.