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Number of obese adults in the U.S. by ethnicity 2011-2012
This statistic represents the number of obese individuals in the United States in the period 2011-2012, sorted by ethnic origin. In that period, most obese individuals aged 20 years and older in the U.S. were non-Hispanic white persons, with a total number of over 50 million adults.