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Average human weighs 137lb - world's fattest countries

Posts: 4,698 Member
edited December 2024 in Chit-Chat
From the Daily Telegraph:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/earthnews/9345086/The-worlds-fattest-countries-how-do-you-compare.html

The world's fattest countries: how do you compare?

The average weight of an adult human is 137 pounds (62 kg) according to a league table of the world's 'fattest' nations from the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine. Find out how you compare to other adults using our interactive graphic.

The pacific island nations of Micronesia and Tonga are at the top of the league table, followed closely by the United States where the average adult weighs 180.62 pounds (81.93 kg).

The United Kingdom is the tenth fattest country in the world, where an average adult weighs 167.1 pounds (75.8 kg).

The study, published in the journal BMC Public Health and launched on Monday at the United Nations conference Rio+20, highlights the problem of obesity in relation to the environment.

Excess consumption shortens people's lives and accelerates the destruction of the environment, and is concentrated in richer countries.

While the average body mass globally was 62 kg, North Americans weigh in at 81.9 kg.

And while the US makes up only five per cent of the world's population, it accounts for almost a third of the world’s weight due to obesity.

In comparison, Asia has 61 per cent of the world’s people but only 13 per cent of the world’s weight.

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  • Posts: 4,698 Member
    My weight falls between Samoa and Kuwait :blushing:
  • Posts: 2,210 Member
    Ever watch "supersize me". Scary stuff
  • Posts: 140 Member
    I'm between Slovenia and Russia. :) Moving on down lol
  • Posts: 256 Member
    In comparison, Asia has 61 per cent of the world’s people but only 13 per cent of the world’s weight.

    I think it is 13% of the World's excess weight, not total weight
  • Posts: 478 Member
    Mine falls between Grenada and Panama, ooo err :embarassed:
  • Posts: 662 Member
    I'm the weight of an average person from Kazakhstan.
  • Posts: 968 Member
    I am exactly 137lbs at the moment so I am pretty average then lol!

    This is an interesting thread though :)
  • Posts: 4,698 Member
    I think it is 13% of the World's excess weight, not total weight
    No, I believe it does mean total weight, same as the US stat.
  • Posts: 414 Member
    I'm the same weight as the average person in Iran
  • Posts: 507 Member
    At my heaviest (two+ years ago) I was 23 stone which was 322lb, or heaver than the heaviest average nation of Micronesia, now I weigh 245lb with is…..
    Guess what
    Still heaver than the average nation of Micronesia.
  • Posts: 126 Member
    I'm between Zambia and Cambodia. Lovely.
  • Posts: 87 Member
    I'm the average weight for a UK adult but I'm not fat.
  • Posts: 143 Member
    I'm between Pakistan and Japan. That's really surprising cause I've never met a Japanese person (I'm a Japanese major so I meet a lot) that wasn't seriously tiny. Perhaps it's cause they don't have separate charts for men and women?
  • Posts: 214 Member
    im between USA an Tonga ?
  • Posts: 2,675 Member
    I'm between Chad and Niger. I imagine I'm still very heavy compared to the women there, though!
  • Posts: 170 Member
    Between Mongolia and Mexico :P
  • Posts: 62 Member
    between Samoa and the US and i'm at my goal weight!
  • Posts: 1,762
    Oh my gosh, Bangladesh is the lightest out of all the countries in the whole world? That's my background haha.

    I'm around Mali though
  • Posts: 998 Member
    Bumping to save for later :happy:
  • Posts: 1,585 Member
    I'm in Armenia territory... I'm almost tempted to eat a bag of chips so I can move to St Lucia next door :wink:

    My ultimate goal is Madagascar :love:
  • Posts: 314 Member
    "You are roughly the same weight as the average adult in Bangladesh" "You're lighter than the average adult in 177 countries", "You're heavier than the average adult in 0 countries"

    Well that certainly adds some perspective
  • Posts: 162 Member
    I am the average weight of a person in the UK - how very humdrum. Must change that! :sad:
  • Posts: 3,343 Member
    I'm between Botswana and Kyrgyzstan
  • Posts: 95 Member
    Vietnam/ Bhutan....Where is that? Guess this will prompt me to study geography :P
  • Posts: 2,675 Member
    I'm between Pakistan and Japan. That's really surprising cause I've never met a Japanese person (I'm a Japanese major so I meet a lot) that wasn't seriously tiny. Perhaps it's cause they don't have separate charts for men and women?

    Remember, sumo wrestlers are included (^∇^)
  • Posts: 198 Member
    The average weight of an adult human is 137 pounds (62 kg) according to a league table of the world's 'fattest' nations from the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine. Find out how you compare to other adults using our interactive graphic.

    Oddly enough, If you weigh under 60 kg then you can't even apply to the British military
  • Posts: 2,675 Member

    Oddly enough, If you weigh under 60 kg then you can't even apply to the British military

    Is that male and female?
  • Posts: 1,585 Member

    Remember, sumo wrestlers are included (^∇^)

    :laugh: I thought exactly the same!
  • Thanks for this bit of fun, I fall between Saint Lucia and Guatemala but aiming for between Equatorial Guinea and Estonia!
  • Posts: 1,828 Member
    America the FAT!
    We are a nation of fatties...lol I use the word "fat." F.A.T.
    F is for "Fatal"
    A is for "Awful"
    T is for "Terrible"
    I use that word because that's what people are: they're fat. They're not bulky; they're not large, chunky, hefty or plump. And they're not big-boned. Dinosaurs were big-boned. These people are not overweight: this term somehow implies there is some correct weight... There is no correct weight. Heavy is also a misleading term. An aircraft carrier is heavy; it's not fat.
    Only people are fat, and that's what fat people are!
    They're fat!
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