A Sneaky Peak At Some Graphical Indulgence...

I was flicking through the IFLScience website this evening (as usual) and stumbled across an interesting article, looking at which countries consume the most calories. Within the article lies a report, conducted by the Organisation of Economic Co-operation and Development, assessing the performance of health systems in OECD countries. I'm not sure if it's the inner mathematician in me, but I just loooove looking at data, especially when it's compiled into nice, attractive, little graphs... (Oh, the shame of it!).. So, this report really captured my interest! Although, sadly, no pie charts to munch on this time folks...

If this is up your street, don't be ashamed! Have a gander at some of these figures taken directly from the report, along with some adaptations developed by Recovery Brands. 

          Source: OECD Health Statistics 2015

           Source: OECD Health Statistics 2015 , Information of data for Israel

The UK actually holds up some impressive results in the fruit and veg categories (especially amongst those who define as female)! Sadly, the same cannot be said on the subject of obesity... (NB: this do not mean that fruit and veg causes obesity!!!)

      Source: OECD Health Statistics 2015 

Below is a graph displaying the comparison of obesity rates between 2000 and 2013 (for some, but not all mentioned countries)...

      Source: OECD Health Statistics 2015 

Now, we take a look at Recovery Brands' mapped visualisations of OECD's data for calories served per capita between the years 2004 and 2013...

    Source: Recovery Brands

Followed by further adaptations of OECD data by Recovery Brands. This time, observing the average calorie consumption per person per day between the years 1961 and 2011...

    Source: Recovery Brands

And last, but not least, shocking percentages of children classified as overweight or obese, for the year 2013 (or nearest)...

       Source: World Obesity Federation (2015), KIGGS (2003-6) for Germany, and KHNANES (2013) for Korea


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