Obesity Rates Worldwide

I wrote an

Essay on the Problems of Obesity and How to Overcome it

The below table shows quite a divergence of obesity rates throughout the world. Interesting that France, Spain and Italy all have a low rate of obesity, maybe they are used to eating more healthy foods.

Percentage of people classified as obese

		% obese
		female	male
USA	1999-2000	34	27.7
Argentina	1997	25.4	28.4
Mexico	-	25.1	14.9
Russia	-	25	10
England	2001	23.5	21.0
Germany	1991	19.3	17.2
Finland	-	19	20
Spain	1997	15.2	11.5
Italy	1999	9.9	9.5
France	1995-1996	7.0	8.0

• Food Standards Agency
• Data collated from various published sources and quoted in ‘Food Manufacturing: Obesity – the big issue’ (J P Morgan European Equity Research)