Not necessarily a reflection of happiness or quality of life (and health). Interesting nonetheless. I’m curious if there’s correlation between general population wealth, warm weather, regional diets, potential for outdoor activities (hence warm weather, but also being coastal), and of course genetics.

I’m asking for too much, studies are long and complicated. Just want to outlive my kids here.

Well most are less overweight, but Australia being up there throws that off I think they are overweight as all the commonwealth countries generally are?