Figures from the 2004-2005 Australian National Health Survey indicated that 47% of Australians over the age of 15 were overweight, but only one-third of them were obese - which is roughly 18%. (see the related link below)
Australia is not even on the World Health Organisation's list of the world's top 10 "fattest" countries.
Nauru, with about 97.5% of the population being overweight ( 8,900 overweight people out of 9,500 people.)
About 20% of the people in this world are considered overweight. About 7% of the worlds population is considered obese
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The percentage of the population of the U.S that is overweight is 5%. The world is 15%. This refers to more less populated and richer countries.
4% of the Australian population has red hair and 2.5% of the New Zealand population has red hair
Australia22,436,804August 26, 20100.33%
If you are asking in absolute numbers then the USA has the highest number of overweight people. If you are asking which country has the highest proportion of overweight people it is the Kingdom of Samoa, and island in the Pacific.
70%
Convicts formed a large percentage of the Australian population for the first few decades of settlement.
24% of the Mexican population (some 27 million out of 111 million) are overweight at various degrees; from one or two extra pounds up to the morbidly obese.
65%
Most of america is overweight or obese. however the percentage of the overweight population is slowly dropping due to them getting help for their weight problem, by either using diet pills, exercising, eating healthier, or all of the above