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If you lived in California instead of Denmark, you would:

Health

be 98.2% more likely to be obese

In Denmark, 14.3% of adults are obese as of 2024. In California, that number is 28.4% 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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