ROMA (ITALPRESS) – In 2025 it is 46.4% the share of people aged 18 and overweight, among them 34.8% is overweight and 11.6% in obesity condition (5 million 750 thousand people). The data is stable compared to the last three years (it was 46.3% in 2023). However, the analysis of the last 10 years shows an increase of 1.3 percentage points, determined by the indicator component relative to obesity, passed from 9.8% to 11.6%. It’s what emerges from an Istat report, according to which it decreased slightly, instead, the quota relative to the overweight, passed from 35.5% in 2015 to 34.8% in 2025. The increase in obesity over time has involved men and women in equal measure, mainly affecting the population of 18-54 years (+2.4 percentage points), while in other age classes the phenomenon has remained altogether stable. The proportion of people in excess of weight grows when the age increases. In particular, the overweight goes from 16.8% in the age range 18-24 years to 41.6% among people aged 75 and over, while obesity varies from 4.4% between 18-24 years and 15.2% between 65 and 74 years.
In the age range from 3 to 17 years in the two-year period 2024-2025 little more than one out of four (26.0%) is excess of weight (for a total of about 2 million children and boys). In 2025 it is 30.8% the share of people of 3 years and more sedentary, who declare that they do not carry out sports or physical activity in leisure time (about 17 million 670 thousand people). The sedentary indicator shows a significant improvement compared to 2024 (when it reached 33.1%), confirming the decrease trend recorded in recent years. The sedentary share is 15.5% among children aged 6-10 years and is kept low among children, while from 35-44 years it already covers more than one adult on four. In 2025 46.8% of the adult population of 18 years and more has declared to be affected by at least one chronic pathology in a list of 19 diseases, while it is 26.5% the share of those who report the presence of comorbility (at least two chronic pathologies). In 2025 it is 18.6% the share of smokers between the population of 11 years and more (equal to about 10 million people), value that is decreasing compared to the recorded in 2024 (19.2%).
Higher proportions of smokers are observed from the 18-24-year-old age group (22.9%), to the highest level among people aged 25-34 (27.4%). In 2025 the 15.1% of the population of 11 years and more (equal to 8 million and 79 thousand people) has at least one behaviour at risk of consumption of alcoholic beverages (usual consumption of excess or drunkenness, the so-called binge drinking). Among men the share is 21.3% (5 million 565 thousand people) while among women is 9.1% (2 million 515 thousand). There is substantial stability in the proportion of consumers at risk compared to 2024 (15.0%). Excessive habitual consumption is 8.3% of the population (11.4% men, 5.3% women), binge drinking 8.2% (12.0% men, 4.6% women). Non-moderate behaviors in alcohol consumption are observed more frequently among 11-17-year-olds (15.4%, with values aligned between boys and girls, respectively 15.8% and 15.1%), among young people and adults up to 44 years (17.0%, 22.6% for men and 11.2% for women) and among oversixty-five years (17.2%, 28.8% for men and women). In 2025 it is 7.4% the population share of 11 years and more that it has habit to use electronic cigarette and/or non-burned heated tobacco products, with a fairly aligned prevalence between men and women (7.7% and 7.1% respectively).
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