Table 4 Adults per tonne biomass and energy used to maintain overweight and obesity
From: The weight of nations: an estimation of adult human biomass
Country with more than 100,000 population | Adults per tonne | Average tTEE[1] Kcal/day/ adult | Average energy used to maintain biomass due to BMI > 25 in kcal/day/adult | Thousands of adults of average mass that could be maintained by the energy required to maintain BMI >25 BMI >30 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Heaviest 10 | |||||
United States | 12.2 | 2874 | 243 | 22,509.2 | 7,886.6 |
Kuwait | 12.9 | 2982 | 233 | 156.6 | 53.9 |
Croatia | 13.1 | 2741 | 205 | 300.3 | 96.0 |
Qatar | 13.0 | 3007 | 204 | 51.6 | 14.5 |
Egypt | 13.5 | 2826 | 192 | 3,733.5 | 1,184.2 |
United Arab Emirates | 13.2 | 3017 | 188 | 241.2 | 62.8 |
Trinidad and Tobago | 13.8 | 2778 | 177 | 71.3 | 21.7 |
Argentina | 13.8 | 2718 | 176 | 1,967.9 | 575.7 |
Greece | 13.3 | 2707 | 169 | 636.0 | 159.3 |
Bahrain | 13.6 | 2889 | 168 | 34.8 | 9.7 |
Lightest 10 | |||||
North Korea | 19.0 | 2348 | 8 | 57.5 | 1.5 |
Cambodia | 17.9 | 2472 | 7 | 23.9 | 0.2 |
Burundi | 18.5 | 2421 | 7 | 11.4 | 0.4 |
Nepal | 19.8 | 2354 | 7 | 42.4 | 0.6 |
Democ. Rep. of the Congo | 18.7 | 2410 | 6 | 71.2 | 2.2 |
Bangladesh | 20.2 | 2342 | 5 | 178.2 | 2.7 |
Sri Lanka | 19.8 | 2318 | 5 | 27.5 | 0.3 |
Ethiopia | 18.9 | 2408 | 3 | 52.9 | 0.5 |
Viet Nam | 19.7 | 2341 | 3 | 73.7 | 1.1 |
Eritrea | 19.2 | 2393 | 2 | 2.0 | 0.0 |
WORLD 2005 | 16.1 | 2549 | 61 | 111,346 | 23,533 |
Scenario (1) if BMI as Japan in all countries | 17.0 | 2490 (−2.4%) | 22 | 40,519 (−64%) | 1,726 (−93%) |
Scenario (2) if BMI as USA in all countries | 13.4 | 2810 (+10.2%) | 224 | 406,255 (+265%) | 136,721 (+481%) |