How Fat is Your Country?

July 15, 2009

The OECD just released their Health Data report for 2009.
Included in this giant book o’ stats was an analysis of the expanding number of overweight and obese people on the planet.
And, boy o boy was there a lot of data about global obesity.
Too much in fact.
So, I created these home made charts to hopefully make it a little clearer.
Chart # 1
Obesity statistics broken down by nation
Countries 1 through 15

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Chart # 2
Obesity statistics broken down by nation
Countries 16 through 30

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Chart # 3
Combined Overweight & Obesity statistics broken down by nation
Countries 1 through 15

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Chart # 4
Combined Overweight & Obesity statistics broken down by nation
Countries 16 through 30

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This is where I would normally add some comments/analysis.
But after looking at these graphs, I have nothing to say.

Say hello to your future self.
p.s.
If you take a look at the comments, you will see that Jess makes an excellent point on the main limitation of BMI…namely […]

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