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3.III.(a)   "Australian Social Trends 2007" ABS Report estimates that obesity and its associated illnesses cost Australian society and governments a total of $21 billion in 2005 -  two million more Australian adults are classified as Overweight or Obese than in 1995

ABS report "Australian Social Trends 2007" identifies in "Overweight and obesity": two million more Australian adults are classified as Overweight or Obese than in 1995.

In 2005, 7.4 million adults - 54% of the adult population - were classified as Overweight or Obese.  Whereas 10 years earlier, 9% less, 45% of the adult population were overweight or obese, posing a major risk to long-term health by increasing the risk of chronic illnesses.  Related health problems include diabetes, cardiovascular disease and some cancers.

    "It has been estimated that obesity and its associated illnesses cost Australian society and governments a total of $21 billion in 2005," the report says.

Rates of overweight and Obesity vary depending on age and sex.  Between 1995 and 2004–05, rates of obesity increased for both men and women across all age groups.  For men, the largest increase in the obesity rate occurred in the 35–44 age group which almost doubled from 12% in 1995 to 23% in 2004–05. For women, the increase in the obesity rate was more uniform across age groups.

Although the National Health Surveys collect data at one point in time, it is possible to observe changes over time in the obesity rate for a cohort of people born in the same ten year period. In this approach, for example, survey respondents aged 25–34 years in 1995 and those aged 35–44 years in 2004–05, while not the same respondents, are seen as representing the same group of people as they age ten years. Among the male cohorts, the greatest increase in the rate of obesity occurred for the group aged 25–34 in 1995 (12% in that year compared to 23% ten years on, in 2004–05).

For females, the greatest increase in the obesity rate occurred for the cohort aged 35–44 years in 1995, with 12% classified as obese compared to 20% of the 45–54 year olds representing the same group of people in 2004–05.

There were smaller increases in older women, with 18% of those aged 55–64 years classified as obese in 1995, compared to 22% of 65–74 year olds representing the same cohort in 2004–05. For men, rates over the ten year period were similar, with 16% of males aged 55–64 classified as obese in 1995, and 17% of 65–74 year olds classified as obese ten years later.
 

OBESE ADULTS BY AGE