25 October 2012

Obesity around the world

To visualize obesity you will need:
- a carrot cake
- some raisins
- a pen to write text on the cake
- obesity data from WHO




Percentage of population over 20 with a body-mass index greater than 30 




Codes: KW - Kuwait, AE - United Arab Emirates, ZA - South Africa, US - United States, RU - Russia, UK - United Kingdom, IT - Italy, SE - Sweden, NL - the Netherlands, FR - France, JP - Japan, KE - Kenia, IN - India, ET - Ethiopia.

Tip: If you have a huge cake and many raisins you can also visualize obesity in Nauru (71% of population) and Cook Islands (64%).

5 comments:

  1. Interesting statistics. Do you also have the data for Germany/Austria/Switzerland?
    And who will eat the cake now? Am I invited? (I am not obese, so no harm done ;o)

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  2. Germany: 21%
    Austria: 18%
    Switzerland: 15%

    I was thinking about sending invitation on Facebook but you know how it can be with Facebook invitations lol

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  3. South Sea Islanders do not consider themselves obese, do they? That is their status symbol.

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  4. Now that is clearly the work of a dataviz fanatic. I love it!

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  5. Wow what a graph, I've heard of Pie Charts but this takes it one step further. Wld u have Australia's stats on obesity please? Keep up the great work. I have just found your blog and jst living it. Thnx, Greg M. Melbouren, Australia

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