Share of underweight female adults in Japan 2010-2019
In 2019, approximately 12.9 percent of female adults in Japan aged 20 years and older were underweight according to the Body Mass Index (BMI) classification, a slight increase from about 12.7 percent in the previous year. In the same survey, the highest among all age groups of around 21 percent of women aged between 15 to 19 years were reported as being underweight.
