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Australia is doing well on the walking scales but is a fat country. Australia is #6 on the obesity rank: http://www.nationmaster.com/country-info/stats/Health

• mkl 12y ago
  Only if you ignore less populous countries (and that data is quite out of date too). In a more complete and more recent list [1], Australia is 44th! A UN report from last year [2] only has data from 2008 as well, so it seems difficult to make an up-to-date comparison. In [3] there's a 2007 list including overweight as well as obese. Australia is 21st. [1] https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/rankorder/2228rank.html https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/... [2] http://www.fao.org/docrep/018/i3300e/i3300e.pdf http://www.fao.org/docrep/018/i3300e/i3300e.pdf [3] http://www.forbes.com/2007/02/07/worlds-fattest-countries-forbeslife-cx_ls_0208worldfat.html http://www.forbes.com/2007/02/07/worlds-fattest-countries-fo...
• cleversoap 12y ago
  I'm not even kidding, we are probably just as lazy except it manifests as "I can't be arsed driving" so we take the simplest route and walk for short distances.