World's fattest countries revealed: Where does America fall on the list? - New York Post

The world’s fattest countries person been revealed successful a caller interactive map.

The map, published by Our World successful Data, uses information compiled from figures from 195 countries astir the satellite and shows the immense disagreement successful obesity rates.

The figures travel from the NCD Risk Factor Collaboration, which recorded worldwide trends betwixt 1975 and 2016 of 128.9 cardinal people.

Statistics were based connected assemblage wide scale (BMI) — specifically, radical who were underweight, overweight oregon obese.

A idiosyncratic is considered overweight if their BMI — which is determined by a person’s value successful kilograms divided by their tallness successful meters squared — is adjacent to oregon greater than 25. A BMI of 30 oregon implicit constitutes obesity. A “healthy” BMI is considered 18.5 to 24.9, according to the CDC.

The representation revealed that 39% of the world’s adults were overweight oregon obese — and 68% of Americans fell into those categories.

It besides showed that not 1 azygous state saw a alteration successful obesity rates betwixt 1975 and 2016.

Globally, 13% of adults aged 18 and older were recorded arsenic obese successful 2016.

The representation uses information compiled from figures from 195 countries astir the world.WHO, Global Health Observatory

All 10 of the world’s fattest countries were successful the Pacific — with the distant land of Nauru holding the apical spot.

Almost 9 successful 10 radical successful Nauru are overweight, according to the data.

The land of Palau came successful 2nd spot with 85.1% of the colonisation being overweight oregon obese, followed by the Cook Islands (84.7%), Marshall Islands (83.5%) and Tuvalu (81.9%).

The United States was ranked the 15th fattest federation and Britain came successful astatine 30.

On the different hand, Vietnam is ranked arsenic the skinniest federation — with conscionable 18.3% of the radical successful Southeast Asia being considered overweight oregon obese.

All 10 of the world’s fattest countries were successful the Pacific — with the distant land of Nauru holding the apical spot.Lorrie Graham/AusAID

The apical 10 most overweight countries successful the satellite are:

1. Nauru – 88.5%
2. Palau – 85.1%
3. Cook Islands – 84.7% 
4. Marshall Islands – 83.5% 
5. Tuvalu – 81.9% 
6. Niue – 80% 
7. Kiribati – 78.7% 
8. Tonga – 78.5% 
9. Samoa – 77.6% 
10. Micronesia – 75.9%

The apical 10 least overweight countries successful the satellite are:

1. Vietnam – 18.3% 
2. India – 19.7%
3. Bangladesh – 20% 
4. Ethiopia – 20.9%
5. Nepal – 21%
6. Timor – 21.6%
7. Cambodia – 21.7%
8. Eritrea – 22%
9. Niger – 22%
10. Burundi – 22.2%

People who are overweight oregon obese person an accrued hazard of galore wellness conditions including death, stroke, crab and precocious humor pressure, according to the CDC.

A recent study besides suggested that obesity should beryllium classified arsenic a encephalon improvement upset alternatively than a behavioral disease.