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 rate of teenagers across gender who have obesity based on their ethnicity over a decade, from 2004 to 2014, in the United Kingdom.

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, it can be observed that even though males outnumber females in most races, the gender gap is not significant between them, with a notable exception of Non-Hispanic Black, where women outnumbered males in both years. Taking a closer look, boys consistently increased over the years.

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, in 2014, Hispanics recorded an increase of roughly 14%, going from 13% to 27%, which is the highest value ever reported for them. Followed by black with 20%

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white with 17%.

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, the number of overwhitge girls has

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grown, with about 5% since 2014 for both Non-Hispanic White and Hispanic.

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, Non-Hispanic Black girls showed the highest percentage with 29%. In total, women have a higher obesity rate than men.