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We aimed to assess the association between these two behaviors and country economic development among young adolescents in LMICs. Data came from the Global School-based Student Health Survey (GSHS) conducted between 2009 and 2016 in 68 LMICs. A total of 180,298 adolescents aged 12\u201315 years were included; 15.3% of young adolescents achieved the recommended level for sufficient physical activity (\u226560 min\/day of physical activity of any kind per week according to WHO) and 64.6% achieved a low sedentary behavior (\u22642 h of sitting activities\/day according to some guidelines, not accounting for sitting time at school or for doing homework). However, only 9.1% of young adolescents met the recommended levels of both behaviors. Comparing the lowest to the highest quintiles of a country\u2019s purchasing power parity per capita (PPP), mean values of both physical activity (boys: 2.55 to 2.96 days\/week; girls: 2.10 to 2.31 days\/week) and sedentary behavior(boys: 1.86 to 3.13 h\/day; girls: 1.83 to 3.53 h\/day) increased. The prevalence of having both recommended behaviors decreased among boys (12.0% to 10.0%) and girls (9.6% to 4.9%) (p &lt; 0.001). Although there might be an ecological fallacy, the findings emphasize the need for interventions to increase physical activity and reduce sedentary behavior among children and young adolescents.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/ijerph17217752","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2020,10,23]],"date-time":"2020-10-23T08:59:28Z","timestamp":1603443568000},"page":"7752","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":19,"title":["Physical Activity and Sedentary Behavior among Young Adolescents in 68 LMICs, and Their Relationships with National Economic Development"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"17","author":[{"given":"Chuanwei","family":"Ma","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, Cheeloo College of Medicine, Shandong University, Jinan 250012, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Yuanyuan","family":"Zhang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Women\u2019s Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou 310006, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Min","family":"Zhao","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Nutrition and Food Hygiene, School of Public Health, Cheeloo College of Medicine, Shandong University, Jinan 250012, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-0242-4259","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Pascal","family":"Bovet","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Center for Primary Care and Public Health (Unisant\u00e9), University of Lausanne, 1010 Lausanne, Switzerland"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-0491-5585","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Bo","family":"Xi","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, Cheeloo College of Medicine, Shandong University, Jinan 250012, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2020,10,23]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","first-page":"507","article-title":"Acting on non-communicable diseases in low- and middle-income tropical countries","volume":"559","author":"Ezzati","year":"2018","journal-title":"Nat. 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