Will the US meet the WHO obesity target?

Obesity causes more deaths than being underweight. Globally, obesity is one of the top five leading causes of death.

In the U.S., no state had an adult obesity rate above 25% in 2000 and no state had it above 35%. in 2012, But in 2020, 4 states were reported to have obesity rate more than 35%

This piece of illustrated data story is based on the report published by County Health Rankings for 2019 & 2020.

Published on Gramener’s blog.