Who is the thickest in the world :?)
British scientists have "weighed" all the people of the planet
Instead of studying the population growth rate, they decided to measure its weight and study its distribution over the surface of the globe.
Using data from the United Nations and WHO (World Health Organization), the researchers concluded that all adults on the planet collectively weigh 285 million tons, with an average weight of 62 kilograms. At the same time, 15 million of the total amount are overweight and 3.5 million are obese.
The highest local body mass index turned out to be in North America – the average weight there is almost 20 kilograms higher than the global one and is 80.7 kilograms. Achieving the same indicators for the rest of the planet means an increase of 58 million tons (or 935 million people with the current average weight). Thus, 6 percent of the total number of people living on the "heaviest" continent accounts for 34 percent of the total mass. Things are much better in Asia – 61 percent of the world's population accounts for only 13 percent of human biomass.
An increase in body weight also means an increase in energy consumption, which is necessary to maintain the functioning of the body.
As the authors of the study themselves note, the "weighting" of people turned out to be a problem at the level of the rapid growth of birth rates, and if humanity fails to find a way to cope with at least one of them, our future seems bleak.
More information about the results of the study can be found in the journal BMC Public Health
(Walpole et al., The weight of nations: an estimation of adult human biomass).
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