Twenty-seven years from now, a quarter of the world’s population may be obese.

If current trends continue, Danish researchers predict that nearly 1/4 of the world’s population will be obese by 2045, with one in eight people worldwide suffering from type 2 diabetes.

Twenty-seven years from now, a quarter of the world’s population may be obese.

Researchers from a number of institutions, including Danish medical firm Novotel, used data from the World Health Organization database to group each country’s population according to age and height and body mass index (BMI). To predict the future development of obesity and type 2 diabetes mellitus in different countries. It was found that, if current trends did not change, by 2045, 22 per cent of the world’s population would be obese and 11.7 per cent of the world’s population would be suffering from type 2 diabetes.

“these numbers highlight the staggering challenges facing the world,” said Alan Moses, a researcher at Norfolk. “in addition to the health challenges faced by these people, national health systems are burdened. Moses and colleagues therefore called on countries to take concrete steps to take the initiative to coordinate efforts to reverse the growing trend of obesity and type 2 diabetes. They noted, however, that there was no uniform and effective approach to the challenge of obesity, owing to differences in demographic composition, society and natural environment among countries.

The study also predicts that, if current trends do not change, by 2045, Obesity in the US will rise from 39 per cent in 2017 to 55 per cent, type 2 diabetes from 14 per cent to 18 per cent, obesity in the UK from 32 per cent to 48 per cent and type 2 diabetes from 10.2 per cent to 12.6 per cent.