By the end of 2020, the obesity rate among adults 20 years or older in the United States will drop from 34.9% in 2012 to 30%… +/- .9 percent.

Created by Lissy on 2015-11-04; known on 2020-12-31

• Lissy estimated 70% on 2015-11-04
• EloiseRosen estimated 5% on 2015-11-04
• JoshuaZ estimated 25% on 2015-11-04
• Raahul_Kumar estimated 0% on 2015-11-04
• Raahul_Kumar said “Trend is increasing obesity, not decreasing.http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/jun/23/new-report-obese-americans-overweight” on 2015-11-04
• danielfilan estimated 10% on 2015-11-05
• danpop estimated 10% and said “Most likely it will remain stable” on 2015-11-06
• Raahul_Kumar said “Overweight and obese people are a majority today in the OECD area. The obesity epidemic continues to spread, and no OECD country has seen a reversal of trends since the epidemic began. ” on 2015-12-19
• Raahul_Kumar said “http://blogs.bmj.com/ebn/2015/01/26/losing-the-fight-against-obesity/” on 2015-12-19
• Raahul_Kumar said “https://www.oecd.org/health/Obesity-Update-2014.pdf” on 2015-12-19
• Raahul_Kumar said “From 1999 through 2014, obesity prevalence increased among adults and youth.http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/databriefs/db219.htm” on 2015-12-31
• Raahul_Kumar said “That is the exact opposite of the prediction, being an increase of 1.6% over the 2012 figure.The prevalence of obesity was 36.5% (crude estimate) among U.S. adults during 2011–2014. ” on 2015-12-31
• Raahul_Kumar said “It is theoretically possible for this negative trend to reverse itself, but it ain’t likely.” on 2015-12-31
• themusicgod1 estimated 19% on 2016-04-11
• danielfilan said “Data wasn’t gathered for the end of 2020, but based on what we have, this seems extremely unlikely. https://www.cdc.gov/obesity/data/adult.html” on 2022-11-08