The two bar charts give information about the proportion of obesity in boys and girs between the ages of 12 and 19 by nationality in the United States for the two decades (2010 and 2014)

The two bar charts give information about the proportion of obesity in boys and girs between the ages of 12 and 19 by nationality in the United States for the two decades (2010 and 2014)
The bar chart illustrates the proportion of obese
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both male and female teenagers between 12 and 19 years old among three ethnicities, which are
non-Hispanic
white,
non-Hispanic
black, and Hispanic, of teenagers in the United States for
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two decades starting from 2004 to 2014.
Overall
,
it is clear that
the highest
rate
of boys in terms of possibilities for suffering
obesity
was
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Hispanics,
while
the highest prevalence for girls was
non-Hispanic
blacks, both in 2014.
Additionally
, all ethnicities in both genders showed upward trends in each figure.
According to
the data, the probability
rate
of
obesity
for Hispanic teenage boys increased more than two times
higher
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in ten years, from 13% in 2004 to 27% in 2014. The
obesity
rate
for non-Hispanics,
however
, showed an increase from 2004 to 2014 as well, albeit not as much as Hispanic males, by 5% from 12% in 2004 to 17% in 2014 for the whites and by 9% from 11% in 2004 to 20% in 2014 for the blacks.
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non-Hispanic
black teenage girls, the possibility
rate
grew by 13%, from 16% in 2004 to 29% in 2014, making it the highest
rate
among the other ethnicities.
Similarly
, the
obesity
rate
for
non-Hispanic
whites and Hispanics grew at the same level over the ten-year period, by 5% altogether, from 9% in 2004 to 14% in 2014 and from 12% in 2004 to 17% in 2014, respectively.
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