The chart below give the information about the percentage of the adults population who were overweight in four different countries in 1980,1990,2000
The given bar chart provides the proportion of overweight people in
Japan
, Finland
, Australia, and the USA
in the years 1980,1990, and 200'.
Overall
, it can be seen that the USA
has always had the highest percentages among the analyzed countries, whereas
Japan
has had the lowest portion in all three decades. Additionally
, it is clear that
the number of fat people steadily grew in the 30-year period in all four countries.
Australia and the USA
were the countries having the greatest proportions of obese communities. Although
Australia, in 1980, had a similar percentage to Finland
's one, it first experienced a slight increase in 1990 and then
a notable one in 2000, increasing its fraction by a total of around 10%. Regarding the USA
, it approximately doubled its percentage, going from 15% of the overweight population to over 30%.
Japan
and Finland
had a quite low number of obese inhabitants, as Japan
always remained under 5% of its total population, and the maximum of overweight people living in Finland
was, in 2000, just around half of the USA
proportion in 1990.Submitted by marianiculescu1103 on
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