Table 1.

Total number of death records at ages 50–89 years with any mention of obesity as underlying/multiple cause, crude death rates, and average number of mentions per certificate

	France	Italy	U.S.
Deaths with obesity as UC
Frequency	1950	1376	7960
Crude death rate (p 100,000)	4.3	3.0	4.1
Average age at death	70	71	64
% Females	58%	62%	54%
Average number of entries/certificate	3.2	3.6	3.7
Deaths with obesity as MC
Frequency	10,233	8882	42,728
Crude death rate (p 100,000)	22.8	19.1	21.9
Average age at death	71	73	65
% Females	54%	64%	51%
Average number of entries/certificate	4.7	5.1	4.6
Deaths from all causes
Frequency	807,855	912,014	3,692,756
Crude death rate (p 100,000)	1798	1964	1891
Average number of entries/certificate	2.6	3.4	2.6

France, Italy, and the United States, 2010–2011