WHOOctober 3, 2017weightWHOOverall, about 13% of the world’s adult population (11% of men and 15% of women) were obese in 2014Share ThisTweetShareShareEmailRelated Posts WHOIn 2014, more than 1.9 billion adults, 18 years and older, were overweight. Of these… WHOThe worldwide prevalence of obesity more than doubled between 1980 and 2014. WHO41 million children under the age of 5 were overweight or obese in 2014.