Primary 1 children at risk of overweight or obesity, Scotland
The share of children in Primary 1 in Scotland at risk of overweight or obesity, with its 95% confidence limits, each school year since 2001/02.
At risk of overweight or obesity
24.43%
2024/25
Verified against source, 1 November 2026, 21:08 UTC- At risk of overweight or obesity
- Lower 95% confidence limit
- Upper 95% confidence limit
Source: Public Health Scotland. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Data table
24 periods, newest first
| Period | At risk of overweight or obesity | Lower 95% confidence limit | Upper 95% confidence limit |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024/25 | 24.43% | 24.29% | 24.57% |
| 2023/24 | 22.25% | 22.12% | 22.38% |
| 2022/23 | 21.96% | 21.87% | 22.06% |
| 2021/22 | 24.22% | 24.20% | 24.25% |
| 2020/21 | 29.37% | 28.91% | 29.83% |
| 2019/20 | 22.70% | 22.32% | 23.09% |
| 2018/19 | 22.44% | 22.27% | 22.62% |
| 2017/18 | 22.48% | 22.37% | 22.60% |
| 2016/17 | 22.88% | 22.76% | 23.01% |
| 2015/16 | 22.13% | 22.02% | 22.23% |
| 2014/15 | 21.82% | 21.73% | 21.91% |
| 2013/14 | 22.65% | 22.55% | 22.74% |
| 2012/13 | 21.33% | 21.26% | 21.40% |
| 2011/12 | 21.92% | 21.84% | 22.01% |
| 2010/11 | 21.51% | 21.31% | 21.71% |
| 2009/10 | 21.61% | 21.46% | 21.76% |
| 2008/09 | 20.91% | 20.69% | 21.14% |
| 2007/08 | 21.23% | 20.95% | 21.51% |
| 2006/07 | 22.33% | 22.01% | 22.64% |
| 2005/06 | 23.37% | 23.19% | 23.56% |
| 2004/05 | 22.92% | 22.69% | 23.14% |
| 2003/04 | 22.99% | 22.61% | 23.37% |
| 2002/03 | 22.70% | 22.29% | 23.11% |
| 2001/02 | 22.45% | 21.96% | 22.94% |
Source and licence
- Publisher
- Public Health Scotland
- Check it yourself
- https://publichealthscotland.scot/publications/primary-1-body-mass-index-bmi-statistics-scotland/
- Licence
- Open Government Licence v3.0 – Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
- Retrieved
- 1 November 2026, 21:04 UTC
- Raw files fetched
- https://www.opendata.nhs.scot/dataset/primary-1-body-mass-index-bmi-statisticsSHA-256 32de9dc1bf74458b20f96defffa5cf74ebdb86c4e4d89768ea9ed60959177cbe · 50,880 bytes
- https://www.opendata.nhs.scot/dataset/01fe4008-23f8-4b34-b8f6-c38699a2f00d/resource/2cb9d907-7149-4bbd-904a-174f15344585/download/od_p1bmi_hb_epi.csvSHA-256 ce323f46d85067a9df12458b7a768b1ae26360580d173ddbce47876c1b47153d · 91,425 bytes
Verification
Verified against source, 1 November 2026, 21:08 UTC Run at 1 November 2026, 21:08 UTC; 72 of 72 figures matched the live source.
| Result | Check | Detail |
|---|---|---|
| Pass | Provenance recorded | Public Health Scotland; Open Government Licence v3.0; retrieved 2026-11-01T21:04:49Z; 2 raw file(s) |
| Pass | Raw files match recorded SHA-256 | 2 of 2 files intact |
| Pass | Re-parsing raw files reproduces figures | 72 of 72 figures and the headline reproduced |
| Pass | Figures are finite numbers | 72 figures, 0 invalid |
| Pass | Live source matches every figure | 72 of 72 figures match exactly after downloading 2 source file(s) again (2 byte-identical); the headline matches |
| Pass | Public Health Scotland file is current | latest period 2025-07-31 ended 458 days before retrieval (limit 550) |
| Not run | Second official route | No independent second route to these figures is published; the live re-fetch is the check. |
| Pass | The weight categories add up to all | 296 of 296 cases of school year and area, underweight, healthy weight, overweight and obese sum to 1 within 1e-09 (296 exactly) |
| Pass | Overweight and obese make the combined share | 296 of 296 cases of school year and area, the overweight and obese shares sum to the combined share within 1e-09 (296 exactly) |
| Pass | The boards' reviews add up to Scotland's | 24 of 24 cases of school year, the boards' valid reviews sum to Scotland's, 2 of them by the publisher's known difference: 2019/20 (-3,983), 2020/21 (-1,551) |
| Pass | Source page answers | https://publichealthscotland.scot/publications/primary-1-body-mass-index-bmi-statistics-scotland/ – HTTP 200 |
Notes
- From the body mass index measured at children's Primary 1 review, around the age of five, against the UK 1990 growth reference: at risk of overweight is at or above the 85th centile and of obesity at or above the 95th, the epidemiological measure PHS uses for the population. PHS gives each share as a fraction, which the hub shows as a percentage, exactly.
- In 2019/20 and 2020/21, when COVID-19 interrupted the reviews, PHS gives Scotland's figures from 25,259 and 22,567 reviews though only 10 and 7 of the 14 boards give figures of their own, adding up to 21,276 and 21,016. England's child obesity figures come from a different programme and measure.