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BMI by Country

Estimated mean Body Mass Index (BMI) trend by country

Estimated mean Body Mass Index (BMI) trend between 1975 and 2014 by country.

BMI (kg/m2) estimates are from male/female populations over the age of 18.

(3 columns, 382 rows)

Examples

Basic Examples

Retrieve the dataset:

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ResourceData["BMI by Country"]
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Plot estimated BMI of G7 (Group of 7) countries over time:

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With[{data = ResourceData["BMI by Country"], g7 = EntityList@EntityClass["Country", "GroupOf7"]}, DateListPlot[ Legended[#[[3]], #[[1]]] & /@ KeyTake[data[Select[MemberQ[g7, #Country] &]][ All, {"Country", "Gender", "BMI"}][GroupBy["Gender"]], #][[ 1]], PlotTheme -> "Business", PlotLabel -> (# <> " estimated BMI"), ImageSize -> 300] & /@ {"Male", "Female"} // Row]
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Color countries by estimated BMI:

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GeoRegionValuePlot[ Normal@ResourceData["BMI by Country"][GroupBy["Country"], Mean, #BMI["LastValue"] &]]
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Wolfram Research, "BMI by Country" from the Wolfram Data Repository (2017)   https://doi.org/10.24097/wolfram.65128.data

Data Resource History

  • Date Created:

Source Metadata

  • Title: Mean body mass index trends, age-standardized (kg/m²) Estimates by country
  • Creator: World Health Organization
  • Publisher: World Health Organization
  • Date: 5 January 2017
  • Description: Global Health Observatory data repository
  • Language: English
  • Source: http://apps.who.int/gho/data/node.main.A904?lang=en
  • Citation: WHO, "Global Health Observatory data repository"

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Publisher Information

  • Publisher of Record: Wolfram Research