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Visualizations : Percentage of Overweight Adults per Country

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Created by: Fernanda B. Viegas      Created on: Thursday April 24, 3:48 PM

dataset icon Data file: Percentage of Obese Adults per Country
Data source: World Health Organization (WHO)
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Comments (8)


Anonymous says:
This is misleading; the article that cites the data source names these statistics as percentage of people who are "overweight" in each country, rather than "obese".
Posted Monday April 28, 1:32 AM
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Anonymous says:
Good observation. I knew the percentages were outrageously high. This is shameful. Way to screw up your demo guys.
Posted Sunday May 04, 4:16 AM
Martin Wattenberg says:
The title has been fixed--thanks for catching this.
Posted Wednesday May 07, 1:40 PM
Anonymous says:
You failed to include your definitions of "overweight" and "obese".
Posted Saturday July 12, 5:52 PM
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Anonymous says:
Who cares the "obese" and "overweight" have almost the same meaning.Anyway America has a huge problem with fast food chains.We chould put some regulations against what the hamburgurs are made out of(cows that are feed with chemicals to produce more meat).
Posted Saturday July 19, 8:46 PM
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Anonymous says:
Who cares the "obese" and "overweight" have almost the same meaning.Anyway America has a huge problem with fast food chains.We chould put some regulations against what the hamburgurs are made out of(cows that are feed with chemicals to produce more meat).
Posted Saturday July 19, 8:46 PM
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Anonymous says:
Who cares the "obese" and "overweight" have almost the same meaning.Anyway America has a huge problem with fast food chains.We chould put some regulations against what the hamburgurs are made out of(cows that are feed with chemicals to produce more meat).
Posted Saturday July 19, 8:46 PM
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Anonymous says:
Who cares the "obese" and "overweight" have almost the same meaning.Anyway America has a huge problem with fast food chains.We chould put some regulations against what the hamburgurs are made out of(cows that are feed with chemicals to produce more meat).
Posted Saturday July 19, 8:46 PM

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