Table 4.
Adults per tonne biomass and energy used to maintain overweight and obesity
| 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%) |
(1) tTEE = theoretical Total Energy Expenditure calculated from FAO tables for adults, assuming that Physical Activity Levels (PAL) for each age-sex group in all countries were the same as those reported for USA in the same document. (2) To calculate these two columns we use the average theoretical tTEE of the world in 2005 (2549 kcal/day).