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I don't think you will find any other country where the obesity rate and diabetes rate is as high as in the US.

• ben_w 1y ago
  USA is 13th for obesity rate according to the WHO in 2022, with Egypt at rank 12, Qatar at 11, and Kuwait at 10: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_obesity_rate https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_obesity_r... If you focus on obesity-related deaths, the USA is even further down the charts, as somehow even Palestine (albeit in 2021, but still) manages to get a higher percentage of those than the USA: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/share-of-deaths-obesity?tab=chart&country=COK~FJI~ASM~SAU~QAT~NRU~TON~MHL~WSM~KWT~NIU~FSM~BHR~KIR~ARE~EGY~SYR~TUV~PLW~PSE~JOR~PRI~TKL~DMA~MUS~MNP~OMN~LBY~ATG~IRQ~USA https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/share-of-deaths-obesity?t... For diabetes rates, the USA (10.7%) isn't just lower than Egypt (20.9%), but also is also lower than Mexico (16.9%), and far short of the worst, which is Pakistan (30.8%): https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/diabetes-prevalence?tab=chart&country=USA~ZAF~AFG~MEX~PAK~PYF~KWT~NRU~NCL~MNP~MHL~MUS~KIR~EGY~TUV~ASM~SLB~QAT~GUM~MYS~SDN~SAU~FJI~PLW~PNG~ARE~KNA~FSM~VUT~JOR~TON~SYR~BLZ~TUR~BGD~BRB~OMN~PRI~GTM~BMU~CYM~TTO~SUR~GRD~TZA~ZMB~LKA~JAM~BRN~BHR~SGP~CUW~LCA~GUY~DMA~COM~ATG~VIR~CHL&mapSelect=USA~ZAF~AFG~MEX~PAK https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/diabetes-prevalence?tab=c... Each of Egypt, Qatar, and Kuwait are worse than the USA on both measures simultaneously.