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- Cook Islands: With an obesity rate of more than 53 per cent, the archipelago is the world leader – closely followed by other Pacific islands like Niue, Nauru and Tonga.
- USA: At 34 per cent, the United States has the highest proportion of obese people in the industrialised world.
- Haiti: Nowhere else do so many people suffer from undernourishment, although the percentage of people with a BMI above 30 is still nearly 12 per cent.
- Germany: At 21 per cent, Germany ranges in the mid-field of obesity statistics – whilst hunger is virtually non-existent at under five per cent.
- Iraq: Despite war, terror and destruction, the percentage of obese and undernourished people nearly holds the balance: a good 25 per cent as against just under 23 per cent.
- Japan: The world’s exception: fewer than five per cent suffer from undernourishment, and obesity is also virtually non-existent at just over 3 per cent.
Sources: Based on FAO: State of Food Insecurity in the World 2015 (data on undernourishment), WHO: Global Health Observatory: Prevalence of obesity (data on obesity)
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