Countries With The Most Plastic Surgery Per Capita (PHOTOS)

More Americans undergo plastic surgery than people in any other country in the world.

But when countries' populations are taken into account, five other nations have more cosmetic surgeries per capita than the U.S., according to data from Trend Monitor and graphed by The Economist.

The list differs somewhat from one compiled by Cosmetic Surgery Today, which only looks at the total number of people going under the knife.

See which countries made the list below:

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• 10. Mexico

  <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/bdebaca/271918328/sizes/o/in/photostream/" target="_hplink">Flickr: bdebaca</a>

• 9. France

  <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/rotia/3925058935/sizes/o/in/photostream/" target="_hplink">Flickr: Aitor Escauriaza</a>

• 8. Japan

  <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/jonblathwayt/4838397302/sizes/l/in/photostream/" target="_hplink">Flickr: Jon Blathwayt</a>

• 7. Taiwan

  <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/kodomut/5857111912/sizes/l/in/photostream/" target="_hplink">Flickr: kodomut</a>

• 6. United States

  <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/29624656@N08/3735314426/sizes/l/in/photostream/" target="_hplink">Flickr: Eva Abreu</a>

• 5. Colombia

  <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/pat_ossa/4994139056/sizes/l/in/photostream/" target="_hplink">Flickr: momentcaptured1</a>

• 4. Brazil

  <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/philliecasablanca/2052060909/sizes/l/in/photostream/" target="_hplink">Flickr: Phillie Casablanca</a>

• 3. Italy

  <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/frontierofficial/7093721999/sizes/o/in/photostream/" target="_hplink">Flickr: Frontierofficial</a>

• 2. Greece

  <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/joaoa/3207259344/sizes/l/in/photostream/" target="_hplink">Flickr: joaoa</a>

• 1. South Korea

  <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/emmanueldyan/5748386859/" target="_hplink">Flickr: Emmanuel Dyan</a>

CORRECTION: An earlier version of this post incorrectly listed the capitals of Mexico and Japan instead of the countries' names.

Comments

[Eli Weiner]

12:41 PM on 08/01/2012

Your article is wrong. Surgeons only report total number of procedures and the International Society of Aesthetic Plastic Surgery only tracks by total procedures

Most women get multiple procedures and it's impossible to know what the actual per capita numbers are. Also the numbers for the US and Korea do not reflect the population since those are the 2 largest surgery centers for foreign nationals

What your article should have said is that Korea has the largest number of PROCEDURES for its population. Which is NOT the same as per capita.

You can't just reblog some false report just because it was in the Economist without even looking at the original data. There's actually NO per capita information at all because of confidentiality issues. Learn2blog

[Broderick Crawford]

11:19 AM on 04/24/2012

Where is Andrew Breitbart when you need him.

[hfm329]

07:23 AM on 04/24/2012

Why not just give us a LIST rather than making us click through the photos?

[splenetic]

01:01 AM on 04/24/2012

The countries of Tokyo and Mexico City? HP, Newt Gingrich suggested using child labor, but he was referring to janitorial work, not news editing.

[SonnyBono]

03:59 AM on 04/24/2012

Perhaps its not child labor - just home schooling.

[Jenny Thielen]

12:38 AM on 04/24/2012

tokyo and mexico city are cities..

[dbeedle]

12:29 AM on 04/24/2012

Since this society places such a value on appearance, I wonder if future marriages will require some kind of verification on this issue? How terrible to have a baby with big ears or a funny nose when you were expecting a little someone with "perfect" features!

[hopper250]

09:57 AM on 04/24/2012

What are you worried about you'll be able to engineer your baby and not worry about natural traits.

[Eli Weiner]

12:36 PM on 08/01/2012

that would make sense if beauty was inherited.

which it is not. l2genetics

[addielukas]

12:28 AM on 04/24/2012

called skorea

[rudewaitress]

10:43 PM on 04/23/2012

#1 would be any country where Joan Rivers happens to be staying for a week.

[Breanne MosherRae]

08:53 PM on 04/23/2012

Way to know your countries from cities, HuffPost.

[ModerateCommenter]

11:21 PM on 04/23/2012

LMAO! I was thinkiing the same thing thanks

[happyone6470]

07:05 PM on 04/23/2012

This doesn't surprise me . Looks is the most important thing in the world to so many people in this country . Fake boobs,fake butts,fake hair,fake nails ,fake eyelashes ,fake lips..Just unreal .

[catbaker]

06:05 PM on 04/23/2012

Mexico City and Tokyo are not countries. Thought you should know.

[xxelbill]

07:02 AM on 04/24/2012

Oh, they definitely SHOULD know. Most pathetic editing (and writing) staff on the planet. But good experience for getting a job with Fox.