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Originally Posted by loco
India is the 8th least obese country in the world. By BMI according to WHO.
USA and México both top 20.
Don't care what's changing lately, those are the numbers 2021.
Not responding anymore, melkerson is the biggest time waster ever in this forum.
You don't have to take my word for it, just listen to Arjun.
The problem with the WHO table that I assume you are referring to is that it looks at mean BMI (you could link the specific chart you're referring to, that would be helpful) . So if you had one country with half the people at BMI at 30 and the other half at BMI of 10, they would average out to 20 and would look exactly the same as a country that had everyone at a BMI of 20. So you can't figure out how many obese people there are just by looking at the mean.
India is kind of like that. Obesity is rampant among people who can afford enough food to be obese. There are also hundreds of millions of people who are protected from obesity by such abject poverty that they don't have access to enough food to be obese. But if you average all these people out, you end up with a number that is not so bad.