Overweight and Obesity around the globe

by k1next

Data:

The data is taken from https://ourworldindata.org/obesity

People with a BMI >= 25 are defined as overweight.

People with a BMI >= 30 are defined as obese.

Data is available for the years 1975-2016 for many countries around the globe.

Tools:

python, matplotlib and geopands.

More information is here on my blog together with the source files on Github.

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Edit: Adding versions with different colormaps (current one is `viridis`):

Viridis reversed, Blues, Reds and Greys