Obesity Rates » worldwide http://www.obesityrates.net Information about obesity rates and defeating this worldwide epidemic Wed, 24 Mar 2010 21:52:29 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Obesity Rates Ranked by Country http://www.obesityrates.net/obesity-rates-ranked-by-country/ http://www.obesityrates.net/obesity-rates-ranked-by-country/#comments Fri, 02 Jan 2009 20:19:31 +0000 Obesity Watch http://www.obesityrates.net/?p=16 Here are the top 20 worldwide obesity rates ranked by country.  This only takes into account OECD countries.  Obesity in America continues to be a problem.

1)      USA:    30.6 percent
2)      Mexico:    24.2 percent
3)      UK:    23 percent
4)      Slovakia:    22.4 percent
5)      Greece:    21.9 percent
6)      Australia:    21.7 percent
7)      New Zealand:    20.9 percent
8)      Hungary:    18.8 percent
9)      Luxembourg:    18.4 percent
10)      Czech Rep:    14.8 percent
11)      Canada:    14.3 percent
12)      Spain:    13.1 percent
13)      Ireland:    13 percent
14)      Germany:    12.9 percent
15)      Portugal:    12.8 percent
16)      Finland:    12.8 percent
17)      Iceland:    12.4 percent
18)      Turkey:    12 percent
19)      Belgium:    11.7 percent
20)      Netherlands:    10 percent

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