Factsheet - Childhood Obesity Surveillance Initiative (‎‎COSI)‎: eating habits of children in 23 European countries (2021)

This factsheet describes eating habits of 6 to 9-year-old children in the WHO European region, using data from 23 countries participating in the 4th round of COSI.

The numerals in the figures below show the proportion of children consuming fruit and vegetables “every day”, and soft drinks “never or less than once a week”.

About COSI

The WHO European Childhood Obesity Surveillance Initiative (or COSI) is a unique system that for over 13 years has measured trends in overweight and obesity among primary school aged children. COSI involves taking standardized weight and height measurements from over 300 000 children across the WHO European Region every three years. This provides nationally representative data for participating countries, as well as a large Region-wide data set for analysis of the determinants of childhood overweight and obesity.