Publication - Statistics

Scottish Health Survey 2018: main report - revised 2020

Published: 21 February 2020
Topic: Health and social care
ISBN: 9781839605550

An amended version of the Scottish Health Survey 2018 main report.

Table 7.3: Proportion of children with BMI within the healthy range, at risk of overweight and at risk of obesity, 1998 to 2018

Base: Aged 2-15 with valid height and weight measurements^a		1998 - 2018
BMI status (National BMI percentiles)		1998	2003	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016	2017	2018
BMI status (National BMI percentiles)		%	%	%	%	%	%	%	%	%	%	%	%	%
Boys	Within healthy range^b	70	65	61	68	65	63	65	67	70	73	70	75	69
	Outwith healthy range^c	30	35	39	32	35	37	35	33	30	27	30	25	31
	At risk of overweight (including obesity)^d	29	34	38	31	33	36	34	31	28	26	28	24	30
	At risk of obesity^e	14	18	19	17	18	20	20	17	16	15	14	12	17
Girls	Within healthy range	70	69	71	70	70	68	70	72	65	70	71	69	71
	Outwith healthy range	30	31	29	30	30	32	30	28	35	30	29	31	29
	At risk of overweight (including obesity)	29	30	28	29	30	29	27	27	34	29	29	29	27
	At risk of obesity	14	14	14	16	14	15	14	15	18	14	14	15	15
All children	Within healthy range	70	67	66	69	67	65	68	70	68	72	70	72	70
	Outwith healthy range	30	33	34	31	33	35	32	30	32	28	30	28	30
	At risk of overweight (including obesity)	29	32	33	30	31	33	31	29	31	28	29	26	29
	At risk of obesity	14	16	17	16	16	17	17	16	17	15	14	13	16
Unweighted bases	Boys	1780	1208	652	967	662	643	630	678	608	508	533	555	690
	Girls	1704	1215	640	914	569	626	644	630	602	452	542	509	602
	All children	3484	2423	1292	1881	1231	1269	1274	1308	1210	960	1075	1064	1292
Weighted bases	Boys	985	1243	669	958	641	655	663	687	620	502	548	579	671
	Girls	931	1182	621	924	612	621	620	660	590	467	539	536	648
	All children	1916	2425	1290	1882	1253	1276	1283	1347	1210	969	1088	1115	1319

a Table only includes children whose BMI was more than 7 standard deviations above or below the norm for their age were excluded from the table
b 'Within healthy range' = BMI above 2nd percentile, below 85th percentile.
c 'Outwith healthy range' = BMI at or below 2nd percentile, at or above 85th percentile.
d 'At risk of overweight' = BMI at or above 85th percentile, below 95th percentile.
e 'At risk of obesity' = BMI at or above 95th percentile.

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Table 7.3: Proportion of children with BMI within the healthy range, at risk of overweight and at risk of obesity, 1998 to 2018

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