EXCLUSIVE Our interactive map reveals most obese counties in America: Where more than half of population are too fat READ MORE: Deaths linked to obesity surge 50% globally since 2000 By Luke Andrews Senior Health Reporter For Dailymail.Com Published: 21:54, 23 September 2024 | Updated: 21:57, 23 September 2024 e-mail View comments America's obesity problem is growing — and it is disproportionately affecting one region of the country. The southern United States is home to 90 of the 100 most obese counties nationwide, and the 15 fattest.
Overall, 33.4 percent of American adults have obesity, a CDC report revealed, while separate figures suggest the rates among children are as high as 17 percent. The recent CDC report found the levels had barely risen in 2022 from 33 percent the year before, but experts are expressing more concern over areas of the country where nearly half of the residents are obese .
Across the country's approximately 3,000 counties, a third — or 1,098 — are now registering obesity rates above 40 percent among adults. And in 11 counties, estimates suggest more than half of adults are now obese — a jump from eight counties the year before. The above map shows obesity rate by county in the US (DailyMail.
com created map) Your browser does not support iframes. The findings come from the CDC's PLACES, Population Level Analysis and Community Estimates, published this month — which were based on more than 400,000 interviews conducted with a nationally repre.
