Interesting information here including some interactive maps and sortable lists. (sadly the maps are Flash based - hopefully the web staff at WHO will join the modern age soon)
It is really interesting looking at the obesity section - try sorting by percentage - several countries are well "ahead" of the US. This is obesity rather than overweight. Many countries have increased a lot in the past decade. The Nordic countries were around 10% and now they are mostly over 15%... The US has flattened a bit - the rate of increase is slower.
71.1 Naura
64.1 Cook Islands
59.6 Tonga
55.5 Samoa
50.7 Palu
46.5 Marshall Islands
45.8 Kiribati
42.8 Kuwait
42.0 Micronesia
40.9 Saint Kitts and Nevis
35.2 Saudi Arabia
35.0 Bahamas
34.9 Belieze
34.6 Egypt
34.3 Jordan
33.7 United Arab Emirates
33.5 South Africa
33.4 Barbados
33.1 Qatar
32.8 Mexico
32.6 Bahrain
32.1 Solomon Islands
31.1 Fiji
31.8 United States of America
31.6 Syrian Arab Republic
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24.9 United Kingdom
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24.3 Canada
16.2 Denmark
16.2 Netherlands
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5.6 China
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4.5 Japan
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1.1 Bangladesh
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