Quality of life comparison

compared to

If you lived in Texas instead of Australia, you would:

Health

be 20.3% more likely to be obese

In Australia, 30.6% of adults are obese as of 2024. In Texas, that number is 36.8% of people as of 2022.

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Sources: World Health Organization (2024), Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (PLACES) (2022). How we calculate this

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