Lifestyles and preventive practices. Absolute figures 
Body Mass Index of children, by sex and Autonomous Community. Population 2 to 17 years of age
Units: thousands of persons

	Total	Normal or insufficient weight	Overweight	Obesity	Does not know / Does not answer	
BOTH SEXES	
    Total	7,041.8	3,995.7	1,030.6	493.5	1,522.0	
    Andalucía	1,418.4	729.9	210.6	127.6	350.4	
    Aragón	181.7	118.2	26.4	11.7	25.3	
    Asturias (Principado de)	121.4	77.3	25.7	4.9	13.5	
    Balears (Illes)	180.2	99.1	26.1	10.5	44.5	
    Canarias	358.0	183.7	69.7	47.9	56.7	
    Cantabria	77.3	38.7	11.5	3.8	23.3	
    Castilla y León	337.8	223.0	45.1	22.1	47.6	
    Castilla-La Mancha	340.0	158.4	60.2	12.8	108.6	
    Cataluña	1,094.2	660.7	137.6	61.7	234.2	
    Comunitat Valenciana	753.8	469.4	101.7	81.1	101.6	
    Extremadura	192.4	89.8	25.1	12.5	64.9	
    Galicia	354.9	198.6	52.4	13.6	90.2	
    Madrid (Comunidad de)	954.3	568.6	147.6	41.6	196.6	
    Murcia (Región de)	245.7	106.1	34.5	17.0	88.1	
    Navarra (Comunidad Foral de)	92.4	54.2	14.5	6.2	17.5	
    País Vasco	265.1	184.5	32.8	11.8	36.0	
    Rioja (La)	42.8	26.2	7.1	4.7	4.7	
    Ceuta and Melilla	31.4	9.2	2.0	1.8	18.4	
MALES	
    Total	3,596.2	1,993.9	569.4	257.6	775.3	
    Andalucía	703.6	358.8	100.7	61.3	182.8	
    Aragón	93.9	60.8	13.0	8.5	11.6	
    Asturias (Principado de)	58.0	37.0	11.8	2.0	7.1	
    Balears (Illes)	101.6	57.5	16.0	7.0	21.1	
    Canarias	195.4	96.1	41.9	20.4	37.1	
    Cantabria	43.4	20.9	7.2	2.1	13.2	
    Castilla y León	169.7	113.4	23.0	13.8	19.6	
    Castilla-La Mancha	184.9	88.0	38.5	9.6	48.8	
    Cataluña	545.7	315.5	89.3	35.8	105.0	
    Comunitat Valenciana	394.2	244.2	55.6	40.1	54.3	
    Extremadura	111.4	47.2	15.9	9.2	39.1	
    Galicia	187.9	101.6	33.8	6.8	45.7	
    Madrid (Comunidad de)	469.3	264.4	79.5	18.5	106.8	
    Murcia (Región de)	124.5	47.4	17.0	11.4	48.7	
    Navarra (Comunidad Foral de)	48.1	29.8	7.2	2.0	9.1	
    País Vasco	125.7	92.4	14.4	6.5	12.5	
    Rioja (La)	21.8	13.1	4.2	1.6	2.9	
    Ceuta and Melilla	17.1	5.6	0.4	1.2	9.9	
FEMALES	
    Total	3,445.6	2,001.8	461.2	235.8	746.7	
    Andalucía	714.8	371.0	109.9	66.3	167.6	
    Aragón	87.8	57.5	13.4	3.2	13.6	
    Asturias (Principado de)	63.4	40.3	13.9	3.0	6.3	
    Balears (Illes)	78.6	41.6	10.0	3.6	23.4	
    Canarias	162.6	87.6	27.9	27.5	19.6	
    Cantabria	33.9	17.9	4.3	1.7	10.1	
    Castilla y León	168.1	109.6	22.2	8.4	28.0	
    Castilla-La Mancha	155.1	70.4	21.7	3.2	59.8	
    Cataluña	548.5	345.2	48.2	25.9	129.1	
    Comunitat Valenciana	359.6	225.2	46.1	41.0	47.3	
    Extremadura	80.9	42.5	9.2	3.4	25.8	
    Galicia	167.0	97.0	18.7	6.8	44.5	
    Madrid (Comunidad de)	485.0	304.1	68.0	23.1	89.8	
    Murcia (Región de)	121.2	58.7	17.4	5.6	39.4	
    Navarra (Comunidad Foral de)	44.2	24.4	7.3	4.1	8.4	
    País Vasco	139.4	92.1	18.4	5.3	23.6	
    Rioja (La)	21.0	13.1	2.9	3.2	1.8	
    Ceuta and Melilla	14.4	3.6	1.6	0.6	8.6	
Notes:
1) Body Mass Index = [WEIGHT(kg) / HEIGHT(m) squared]
The symbol '.' shall be deemed as data which cannot be provided since it may be affected by sampling errors.
 The symbol '..' shall be deemed as data which is not collected.
 The symbol '...' shall be deemed as an 'error of division by zero'.
Source: Ministry of Health and Consumption and INE