The National Health Insurance Service says obesity caused social losses totaling eleven-point-five trillion won or zero-point-seven percent of the annual gross domestic product in 2016.

Slightly more than 51 percent is in medical costs totaling five-point-nine trillion won.

A decline in productivity made up 20-point-five percent of the losses, or two-point-four trillion won.

Other losses came from early deaths, caregiver expenses and transportation costs.

The obesity-related disease leading to the highest cost was diabetes, at two-point-six trillion won, followed by hypertension at nearly two trillion won.

Socioeconomic costs from men exceeded those from women by one-point-three times, and obesity generated its highest losses from those in their 50s, followed by those in their 60s, then 40s.