More obese than underweight 5 to 19 year olds by 2022 but underweight persists in poor regions

The authors say that if post-2000 trends continue,
　global levels of child and adolescent obesity will surpass those for moderately and severely underweight youth from the same age group by 2022.
In 2016, the global number of moderately or severely underweight girls and boys was 75 million and 117 million respectively.