Obesity costs the UK economy billions of pounds every year

Obesity costs the UK economy around £20 billion annually, equivalent to around $26-27 billion at current rates. Such data, citing a study by the independent organization Office for Health Economics, was provided by GB News.

It is estimated that two thirds of British adults are now overweight or obese, with the Kingdom recording the highest loss of productivity per person among the eight major European countries surveyed.

If we also take into account the direct medical costs associated with this problem, the total loss to the British economy reaches approximately $45 billion, which is equivalent to 1.4 percent of GDP and amounts to almost 500 pounds per inhabitant, the material says. The authors emphasize that this, for example, is significantly more than London's government spending on the housing sector (0.9 percent of GDP).