Проблема избыточного веса населения России: статистический анализ

Вопросы статистики. 2018. Т. 25. № 10. С. 61–77.

Aleksandrova J., Kolosnitsyna M.

This article discusses population’s overweight as one of the top-priority problems both for public health and national economy in many countries in the past several decades. There is a literature review on population overweight and obesity trends, assessment of social and economic factors and consequences of this phenomenon. The overweight impacts are explored as the costs for all economic agents: individuals, companies and government.

This article presents the results of descriptive analysis based on two representative population surveys held by Levada-Center in 2011 and 2017. These results proved uptrend of population overweight in Russia as in many other countries. The correlations were found between overweight and education, marriage and employment status of individual. Overweight is also associated with higher medical spending and work absenteeism.

Keywords: Россия, ожирение, избыточный вес, индекс массы тела, экономические потери

Publication based on the results of: Consumer behavior on the markets of socially important goods and services (2018)