Most Overweight Nations: OECD Report (PHOTOS)

It's enough to make you re-think ordering that dessert next time: a new report has found that over two-thirds of the U.S. population is currently overweight.

The report, released by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), says that "soaring obesity rates make the US the fattest country in the OECD." More alarmingly, the problem of obesity in the U.S. is not limited to adults: America also has the highest rate of child obesity among developed nations.

America, of course, is not alone among OECD nations in the struggle to deal with weight issues. In almost half of OECD countries, 50 percent or more of the population is now classified as overweight. Meanwhile, rates for obesity have doubled and even tripled in certain countries since 1980. Most tellingly, before 1980, the report states, rates of obesity in OECD countries were generally below 10 percent.

See which OECD nations are the world's most overweight in the slideshow below. (Note: The data in the slideshow represents the percent of the adult population that is overweight. The OECD breaks out different numbers for the percent that is obese. You can read the full OECD report here.

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Mexico - 69.5%

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[mododavid]

10:42 PM on 10/15/2010

WHAT? We're not even No.1 at THAT anymore?! First, science and math skills, now this!

[grange]

02:31 PM on 10/12/2010

Dont believe these figures.

Where is Samoa ?

Ive never met a fat Greek or Icelander

[Mr Anonymous]

01:16 AM on 10/03/2010

Is it just me, or has the weight limits for obesity gone down a lot. I remember when I was in high school I was ten pounds underweight. Now a certain number of years later I am still the same height and weight, but on the upper end of what I should be. Don't worry about weight, worry about living a healthy lifestyle.

[holyghostie]

11:16 PM on 10/02/2010

I bet the number is about 80% of teabaggers.

[talkingheads]

11:11 AM on 10/02/2010

I'm surprised to see Iceland and NZ!!

[InfinteShibumi]

11:43 PM on 10/02/2010

Took the words out of my mouth!

[trccommission]

02:25 AM on 10/02/2010

With the exception of mexico, it seems that speaking English is bad for your wasteline.

[bub26]

08:03 AM on 10/12/2010

argentina, spain, luxembourg, slovenia, greece, chile, iceland and canada are on the list, too. yes the canadians mostly speak english, but i'm blaming the french for the obesity problem

[trccommission]

11:25 AM on 10/12/2010

That was one slow reply ¬¬. Wouldn't put it past the French mind, all that cheese eating/ surrender monkeying.

[sbrannon]

05:28 PM on 10/01/2010

Time to make good ole home cooked meals, grow your own veggies, and work a 49 hour work week!

[moonlightesq]

04:09 PM on 10/01/2010

Wow, we're beat by Mexico?

[Mr Anonymous]

01:16 AM on 10/03/2010

Oh no, now mexicans are taking that from us too.

[bub26]

08:10 AM on 10/12/2010

i've lived in mexico (west denver) and i can tell you theyre a bit chubbier than your average american. just a teeny, tiny bit

[Josh Diamond]

01:47 AM on 10/01/2010

All the while, women in Niger gather dirt for their children to eat as we pout that there isn't enough ranch at the salad bar

[forestnfama]

12:56 PM on 09/30/2010

My greatest question..........why are all the people who drink diet colas fat? Because diet colas make you fat....pure and simple.

[forestnfama]

12:45 PM on 09/30/2010

There are really two culprits that caused obesity in the United States.......plain and simple.....

Artificial sugar and fructose. Saccharin may not have calories but the body still thinks it is sugar and creates insulin that creates fat twice as much as sugar. The fruitose that industries started putting in softdrinks and other foods because it was cheaper than regular cane sugar can not be digested by the stomach. In fact it can only be digested by the liver. When the liver digest fructose 80% of the fructose is converted to fat and 20% is used as energy. When Don Rumsfield forced the FDA to certify artificial sugar back 40 years ago under Reagans administration, inspite of great opposition from doctors and scientist and experts, was when the American people started getting fat. For the low down.......google sweet misery..... We can thank Don Rumsfield for making America a fat and obese nation.

[johnnygoodwud]

07:41 PM on 09/30/2010

how about portion control? how about exercise?

[calgary]

09:27 AM on 09/30/2010

Interesting there are no Asian countries. Is it diet, culture or genetics?

[judiNJ]

04:03 PM on 09/30/2010

Could be diet and culture because oddly enough, Asians tend to gain weight once they immigrate to the US.

[nobody in particular]

08:30 PM on 09/29/2010

Let's keep in mind that this study was only for OECD countries. If it had included all countries, I bet we would have seen Tonga all the way at the top.

[cgeorgan]

03:25 PM on 09/29/2010

I never realized that thyroid problems were so prevalent in the U.S. and other nations.

[satanlite]

12:30 PM on 09/29/2010

OMG why PHOTOS for crise sake?