PARIS — Nearly a third of all adults are not doing enough physical activity, posing a growing threat to health across the world, a major study said on Wednesday.

More than 31 percent of adults — 1.8 billion people — did not get the recommended amount of physical exercise in 2022, an increase of 5 percentage points from 2010, according to a study by the World Health Organization and other researchers.

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