Quality of life comparison

compared to

If you lived in New York instead of Norway, you would:

Health

be 48.1% more likely to be obese

In Norway, 20.2% of adults are obese as of 2024. In New York, that number is 29.9% 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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