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Currently about 34% (the data for 2007) of people are obese in the US on an average, due to official statistics - the numbers are different for different states, with up to 40% percentage in some. This index is 3-6 times higher than such for Europian contries and 6-8 times bigger than in Asia Pacific region. Just to compare - in 1985 this measure was not higher than 10-14% in the USA states with the maximum of obese people. See more obesity statistics with charts by the link below.
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∙ 12y ago"There are roughly 6.8 million adults that suffer from morbid obesity in the United States. That number translates to approximately 3% of the American population. These number are representative of a 2005 study and is up by 2% or 4.2 million people from data collected 2000. According to government data used in the study, about 66% of people in the USA are now either overweight or obese, which is defined as 30 or more pounds over a healthy weight."
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What percentage of adult Americans are considered obese?
Roughly 30% of Americans are now obese.
What was the percentage of overweight or obese Americans in 2005?
shoot, i aint know!?
According to the National Institutes of Health what percent of adult Americans were overweight or obese in 2005?
The percentage of US children overweight or obese was as high as 65%.
What percentage of Ethiopia is obese?
100% of ethiopa is obese
What percentage of Americans are obese?
Obese people make up roughly 30% of the USA's population.
What percentage of Canada's population is obese?
The percentage of adults who are obese in Canada is 23.1 %. (BMI is over 30)
What percent of Americans were obese in 2005?
Between 2005-2006, it was estimated that 32.7% of Americans are overweight and 34.3% were obese.
What percentage of North America's population is obese?
73% of Americas population is obese.
What percentage of kids get obese because of there parents?
About 80% of kids are obese do to there parents.
What percentage of kids in California are obese?
67.6% are obese in the world today!!!!!!!!!!!! ;)
What percentage of the world's population is not obese?
40
Who more obese UK or us?
The United States has the largest percentage of obese people of the two.
