Public Health Weekly Report 2025; 18(4): 222-223
Published online January 23, 2025
https://doi.org/10.56786/PHWR.2025.18.4.4
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The proportion of the population consuming more than 500 g of fruits and vegetables per day (age standardization) among those aged 6 and over was 22.1% in 2023, representing an 11.0%p decrease compared to 2016 (Figure 1). The proportion for women was lower than that for men in 2023, and the proportion for women aged 12–29 was below 10% (Figure 2).
*Proportion of the population consuming more than 500 g of fruits and vegetables per day: proportion of the population aged 6 and over eating more than 500 g of fruits and vegetables per day.
†The mean in Figure 1 was calculated using age- and sex-specific structures of the estimated population in the 2005 Korea Census.
Source: Korea Health Statistics 2023, Korea National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, https://knhanes.kdca.go.kr/
Reported by: Division of Health and Nutrition Survey and Analysis, Department of Chronic Disease Prevention and Control, Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency
Public Health Weekly Report 2025; 18(4): 222-223
Published online January 23, 2025 https://doi.org/10.56786/PHWR.2025.18.4.4
Copyright © The Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency.
This is an Open Access aritcle distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) which permits unrestricted distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
The proportion of the population consuming more than 500 g of fruits and vegetables per day (age standardization) among those aged 6 and over was 22.1% in 2023, representing an 11.0%p decrease compared to 2016 (Figure 1). The proportion for women was lower than that for men in 2023, and the proportion for women aged 12–29 was below 10% (Figure 2).
*Proportion of the population consuming more than 500 g of fruits and vegetables per day: proportion of the population aged 6 and over eating more than 500 g of fruits and vegetables per day.
†The mean in Figure 1 was calculated using age- and sex-specific structures of the estimated population in the 2005 Korea Census.
Source: Korea Health Statistics 2023, Korea National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, https://knhanes.kdca.go.kr/
Reported by: Division of Health and Nutrition Survey and Analysis, Department of Chronic Disease Prevention and Control, Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency