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Death rate from obesity, 2019

Estimated annual number of deaths attributed to obesity per 100,000 people.

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Data source: IHME, Global Burden of Disease (2019) – Learn more about this data

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Note: To allow comparisons between countries and over time this metric is age-standardized. Obesity is defined as having a body-mass index (BMI) ≥ 30. BMI is a person's weight (in kilograms)divided by their height (in meters) squared.

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