The bar charts below shows the prevalence of obesity among boys and girls aged 12 to 19 by ethnicity, in the United States for the years 2004 and 2014.

The bar charts illustrate the percentages of obesity among American boys and girls aged 12 to 19 by ethnicity in the years 2004 and 2014, broken down into three categories:

non-

Hispanic

-white,

non-

Hispanic

black, and

Hispanic

.

Overall

, it is evident that the

number

of obese young people increased in 2014 for both genders. Except for the

non-hispanichispanic

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non-Hispanic Hispanic

black group,

males

had more prevalence for over-wight than females in other groups.

Nevertheless

,

Hispanic

males

and

non-

Hispanic

black women had the biggest growth in 2014.

To begin

with, the prevalence of obesity in all the male groups started at relatively less than 15%;

however

,

this

increased significantly in 2014. The

Hispanic

males

had the wildest fluctuations, with a massive jump to 27%, the highest percentage in any other male group;

whereas

, the non-Hispanichispanic white category had the smallest rise, at around 17% in 2014. Eventually, the non-Hispanichispanic black

males

escalated to 20%. Meanwhile, the

number

of

non-

Hispanic

black females who were obese had the highest

number

in both 2004 and 2014, it rose from 16% to 29%, the biggest

number

in any other category. The other female groups showed a slight increase, the

non-

Hispanic

white went from 9% to 14%, and the

Hispanic

increased from 12% to 17%.