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Countries by obesity rate, data from WHO 2022 This is a list of countries by obesity rate , with data from the World Health Organization (WHO), as of 2022. World Health Organization (2022 data)
Obesity in Canada varies by ethnicity; people of Aboriginal origin have a significantly higher rate of obesity (37.6%) than the national average. [36] In children obesity has substantially increased between 1989 and 2004 with rates in boys increasing from 2% to 10% and rates among girls increasing from 2% to 9%. [37]
Obesity in Canada is a growing health concern, which is "expected to surpass [a] smoking as the leading cause of preventable morbidity and mortality" and represents a burden [b] of Can$3.96 (US$3.04/€2.75) billion on the Canadian economy each year."
Another issue with comparing the two systems is the baseline health of the patients for which the systems must treat. Canada's obesity rate of 14.3% is about half of that of the United States 30.6%. [132] On average, obesity reduces life expectancy by 6–7 years. [133]
In 2005, the medical costs attributable to obesity in the US were an estimated $190.2 billion or 20.6% of all medical expenditures, [243] [244] [245] while the cost of obesity in Canada was estimated at CA$2 billion in 1997 (2.4% of total health costs). [96] The total annual direct cost of overweight and obesity in Australia in 2005 was A$21 ...
The head of Statistics Canada is the chief statistician of Canada. The heads of Statistics Canada and the previous organization, the Dominion Bureau of Statistics, are: Robert H. Coats (1918–1942) Sedley A. Cudmore (1942–1945) Herbert Marshall (1945–1956) Walter E. Duffett (1957–1972) Sylvia Ostry (1972–1975) Peter G. Kirkham (1975 ...
A new survey found that 1 in 5 adults “who say they have no personal or family history of heart attack or stroke,” reported “routinely” taking a low-dose aspirin
March 10 – In a data published by Statistics Canada, around 337,000 jobs have been added in February 2022, dropping the jobless rate down to 5.5 per cent, the lowest in Canada since February 2020, a month prior to the COVID-19 pandemic and recession. [11]