How do those stats translate to our health?
Not well. Obesity is on the rise, with one in three Australian adults weighing in as obese in 2017-18, a huge increase from 1995 when it was one in five (AIHW).
Obesity is also more prevalent than it has been in the past in children and young people, and in the Indigenous population.
As a result, more than 22,000 Australians per year undergo weight loss surgery, more than double the number compared to 2005-6 (AIHW).