{"id":5167,"date":"2025-09-08T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-09-08T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mapasmilhaud.com\/?p=5167"},"modified":"2025-09-08T16:05:04","modified_gmt":"2025-09-08T14:05:04","slug":"map-of-obesity-in-north-america-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mapasmilhaud.com\/en\/mapas-de-datos\/mapa-del-sobrepeso-en-norteamerica-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Map of obesity in North America (2024)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mapasmilhaud.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/1087-Mapa-del-sobrepeso-en-Norteamerica-2024.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1500\" height=\"1440\" src=\"https:\/\/mapasmilhaud.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/1087-Mapa-del-sobrepeso-en-Norteamerica-2024.png\" alt=\"Map of obesity in North America (2024)\" class=\"wp-image-5191\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mapasmilhaud.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/1087-Mapa-del-sobrepeso-en-Norteamerica-2024.png 1500w, https:\/\/mapasmilhaud.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/1087-Mapa-del-sobrepeso-en-Norteamerica-2024-13x12.png 13w, https:\/\/mapasmilhaud.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/1087-Mapa-del-sobrepeso-en-Norteamerica-2024-450x432.png 450w, https:\/\/mapasmilhaud.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/1087-Mapa-del-sobrepeso-en-Norteamerica-2024-300x288.png 300w, https:\/\/mapasmilhaud.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/1087-Mapa-del-sobrepeso-en-Norteamerica-2024-768x737.png 768w, https:\/\/mapasmilhaud.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/1087-Mapa-del-sobrepeso-en-Norteamerica-2024-1024x983.png 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1500px) 100vw, 1500px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This map, created by\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/landgeist.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Landgeist<\/a>\u00a0in 2024, shows the obesity situation in North America, according to data provided by the World Health Organisation (WHO) and other national agencies for 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to the WHO, all individuals with a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/es.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/%C3%8Dndice_de_masa_corporal\">body mass index<\/a>\u00a0above 25, obese are those with an index above 30. With the available data, the figures for Haiti (10.7\u202f%) and Cuba (21.8\u202f%) quickly stand out, with the lowest number of citizens with obesity. At the other end of the spectrum are the Bahamas (47.3\u202f%) and several states in Mexico: Campeche (50.8\u202f%), Tamaulipas (49.1\u202f%), Baja California Sur (47.4\u202f%) and Yucat\u00e1n (45.8\u202f%).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This indication should be considered an epidemiological issue, as each individual's body structure may determine a different appropriate body mass index.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On this other map, you can consult the <a href=\"https:\/\/mapasmilhaud.com\/en\/data-maps\/map-of-overweight-in-europe-2024\/\" title=\"Map of overweight in Europe (2024)\">data on overweight in Europe<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Sources<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/landgeist.com\/2024\/11\/05\/obesity-rate-in-north-america\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Obesity Rate in North America<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This map, created by Landgeist in 2024, shows the obesity situation in North America, according to data provided by the World Health Organisation... <\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5191,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"googlesitekit_rrm_CAow66TFDA:productID":"","iawp_total_views":3571,"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[12],"tags":[1053,504,450,155],"class_list":["post-5167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mapas-de-datos","tag-1053","tag-landgeist","tag-norteamerica","tag-salud-publica"],"aioseo_notices":[],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/mapstodon.space\/@mapasmilhaud\/115167197088838376","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mapasmilhaud.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mapasmilhaud.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mapasmilhaud.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mapasmilhaud.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mapasmilhaud.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5167"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mapasmilhaud.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5167\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mapasmilhaud.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mapasmilhaud.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mapasmilhaud.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mapasmilhaud.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}