Atlas

3 of 200+ countries and territories

Outline map of the world

Researched

  • ResearchedIcelandHow can Iceland, the country that got its teenagers to quit drinking and smoking, take more antidepressants than anyone in the OECD?
  • ResearchedMexicoHow can Mexico, whose food is UNESCO-listed heritage of humanity, have diabetes as its number 2 killer?

Scripted

  • ScriptedDenmarkHow can Denmark, the happiest country on earth, have the highest cancer rate in the EU?

Unverified

  • UnverifiedUnited StatesHow can the United States, the country that spends the most per person on health on earth, have the shortest life expectancy of any Group of Seven country?
  • UnverifiedNauruHow can Nauru, the smallest island nation on earth, have more than seven in ten adults living with obesity?
  • UnverifiedCosta RicaHow can Costa Rica, a country with no army, have longer lives than the United States?
  • UnverifiedIndiaHow can India, the country with the most vegetarians on earth, be the diabetes capital of the world?
  • UnverifiedFinlandHow did Finland, once the heart attack capital of the world, fix it in one generation?
  • UnverifiedSouth KoreaHow can South Korea, the Miracle on the Han River, have the highest suicide rate in the OECD?
  • UnverifiedFranceHow can France, the country of wine and butter, have more than forty thousand deaths a year from alcohol?

Idea

  • IdeaRwandaHow can Rwanda, home of Africa's cleanest city, have one in three children stunted?
  • IdeaBoliviaHow can Bolivia, home of the healthiest arteries ever studied, have the second-highest tuberculosis rate in South America?
  • IdeaCubaHow can Cuba, the country with the most doctors per person on earth, have a higher infant death rate than the United States?
  • IdeaMongoliaHow can Mongolia, the Land of the Eternal Blue Sky, have outdoor air that kills more than sixteen hundred people a year?
  • IdeaBhutanHow can Bhutan, the first country on earth to ban tobacco sales, have one in four adults still using it?
  • IdeaQatarHow can Qatar, the country with a public holiday for sport, have one in four adults with diabetes?
  • IdeaUruguayHow can Uruguay, the country that beat Big Tobacco in court, have the highest colon cancer rate in Latin America?
  • IdeaEstoniaHow can Estonia, the state that runs its government online, have men dying more than eight years before women?
  • IdeaJapanHow can Japan, the longest-lived country in the Group of Seven, have the highest suicide rate in the group?
  • IdeaIndiaHow can India, the birthplace of yoga, have more than a third of its children stunted?
  • IdeaSingaporeHow can Singapore, the Garden City, have more than one adult in ten living with diabetes?
  • IdeaFinlandHow can Finland, the sauna capital of the world, have cut heart deaths by more than four fifths in one region?
  • IdeaItalyHow can Italy, the home of the Mediterranean diet, have nearly three in ten kids overweight or obese?
  • IdeaAustraliaHow can Australia, the lucky country, have the highest melanoma rate on earth?
  • IdeaNetherlandsHow can the Dutch, the tallest people on earth, be getting shorter?
  • IdeaNorwayHow can Norway, the country the UN has ranked top for human development more often than any other, have a suicide rate above Denmark's?
  • IdeaAfghanistanHow can Afghanistan, the crossroads of the ancient Silk Road, lose almost eighty thousand children a year before they turn five?
  • IdeaAlbaniaHow can Albania, the first atheist state in the world, have one adult in ten living with diabetes?
  • IdeaAlgeriaHow can Algeria, the largest country in Africa, have more than one in six adults with diabetes?
  • IdeaAndorraHow can Andorra, one of the longest-lived nations on earth, have almost half its adults overweight?
  • IdeaAngolaHow can Angola, one of Africa's four biggest oil producers, have one child in twenty die before the age of five?
  • IdeaAntigua and BarbudaHow can Antigua and Barbuda, the island nation with a beach for every day of the year, have almost two in three adults overweight?
  • IdeaArgentinaHow can Argentina, the Latin American country with the most science Nobel prizes, have seven in ten adults overweight or obese?
  • IdeaArmeniaHow can Armenia, the first nation to adopt Christianity as its state religion, have cardiovascular disease cause more than half of all its deaths?
  • IdeaAustriaHow can Austria, home of the most liveable city on earth until Copenhagen took the crown, have one of Europe's highest suicide rates?
  • IdeaAzerbaijanHow can Azerbaijan, the first democratic republic in the Muslim East, have almost two in three adults overweight?
  • IdeaBahamasHow can the Bahamas, the country of seven hundred islands, have more than three in four adults overweight?
  • IdeaBahrainHow can Bahrain, the first country in the Gulf to strike oil, have more than one in five adults with diabetes?
  • IdeaBangladeshHow can Bangladesh, home of the Nobel-winning Grameen Bank, have around twenty million people drinking arsenic-contaminated water?
  • IdeaBarbadosHow can Barbados, home of the UNESCO-listed city of Bridgetown, have more than two in three adults overweight?
  • IdeaBelarusHow can Belarus, home of the forest that saved Europe's bison from extinction, have more than half its adults overweight?
  • IdeaBelgiumHow can Belgium, home of UNESCO-listed beer culture, have the highest suicide rate in Western Europe?
  • IdeaBelizeHow can Belize, home of the second largest coral reef system on earth, have one adult in seven living with diabetes?
  • IdeaBeninHow can Benin, the heartland of Vodun, have more than one child in thirteen die before the age of five?
  • IdeaBosnia and HerzegovinaHow can Bosnia and Herzegovina, the Jerusalem of Europe, have more than one in three adults using tobacco?
  • IdeaBotswanaHow can Botswana, the longest uninterrupted democracy in Africa, have one in five adults living with HIV?
  • IdeaBrazilHow can Brazil, home of the largest government-run public health system in the world, have about one in ten of the world's murder victims?
  • IdeaBruneiHow can Brunei, the oil-rich state with free or subsidised healthcare, have nearly one in seven adults living with diabetes?
  • IdeaBulgariaHow can Bulgaria, the home of yogurt, have the shortest life expectancy in the EU?
  • IdeaBurkina FasoHow can Burkina Faso, the land of upright people, have about one child in thirteen dying before the age of five?
  • IdeaBurundiHow can Burundi, home of the royal drummers, have more than half its children stunted?
  • IdeaCabo VerdeHow can Cabo Verde, the second country ever to graduate from least developed status, have road deaths nearly five times the European Union rate?
  • IdeaCambodiaHow can Cambodia, home of the largest religious complex on earth, have more than one in five children stunted?
  • IdeaCameroonHow can Cameroon, the country of the Olympic football champions, have about one in fifteen children dying before age five?
  • IdeaCanadaHow can Canada, the country with universal public healthcare, have lost more than fifty-seven thousand people to opioids in one decade?
  • IdeaCentral African RepublicHow can the Central African Republic, home of a UNESCO World Heritage rainforest, have more than one in three children stunted?
  • IdeaChadHow can Chad, home of the oldest known human ancestor, have nearly one in ten children die before age five?
  • IdeaChileHow can Chile, the first South American country to join the OECD, have nearly half its women living with obesity?
  • IdeaChinaHow can China, the country that lifted more people out of poverty than any nation in history, have more adults with diabetes than any other country on earth?
  • IdeaColombiaHow can Colombia, the country with the most bird species on earth, have a homicide rate nearly five times the world average?
  • IdeaComorosHow can the Comoros, the perfume islands, have nearly one child in five stunted?
  • IdeaCongo (Republic)How can the Republic of Congo, birthplace of La Sape, lose about one child in twenty-five before age five?
  • IdeaCongo (DRC)How can the Democratic Republic of the Congo, home of Africa's oldest national park, have nearly half its children stunted?
  • IdeaCote d'IvoireHow can Côte d'Ivoire, the world's biggest cocoa producer, have more than one child in five in hazardous work?
  • IdeaCroatiaHow can Croatia, the home of Nikola Tesla, have more than one adult in three smoking?
  • IdeaCyprusHow can Cyprus, the island of Aphrodite, have one in eight people carrying a gene for a serious blood disease?
  • IdeaCzechiaHow can Czechia, the home of the pilsner, have one death in sixteen linked to alcohol?
  • IdeaDjiboutiHow can Djibouti, home of the lowest point in Africa, have one child in twenty dying before their fifth birthday?
  • IdeaDominicaHow can Dominica, the Nature Island of the Caribbean, have nearly half of its women obese?
  • IdeaDominican RepublicHow can the Dominican Republic, home of the oldest university in the Americas, have more than one in five girls aged twelve to nineteen already pregnant?
  • IdeaEcuadorHow can Ecuador, the first country to give nature legal rights, have more than one in six children stunted?
  • IdeaEgyptHow can Egypt, the first country to reach WHO's gold tier against hepatitis C, have cut infections from one in ten people to almost none?
  • IdeaEl SalvadorHow can El Salvador, the first country to make bitcoin legal tender, have cut its murder rate by more than nine in ten in seven years?
  • IdeaEquatorial GuineaHow can Equatorial Guinea, Africa's richest country per head, have one in seventeen children dying before age five?
  • IdeaEritreaHow can Eritrea, home of Africa's UNESCO modernist city, have cut child deaths by more than three quarters in just over three decades?
  • IdeaEswatiniHow can Eswatini, Africa's last absolute monarchy, have nearly one in four adults living with HIV?
  • IdeaEthiopiaHow can Ethiopia, the native home of Arabica coffee, have more than one in three children stunted?
  • IdeaFijiHow can Fiji, the country that won its first Olympic gold in rugby sevens, have one in six adults living with diabetes?
  • IdeaGabonHow can Gabon, a country that turned about a tenth of its land into national parks, have about one child in thirty dying before the age of five?
  • IdeaGambiaHow can The Gambia, the Smiling Coast, have more than seven in ten women who have undergone female genital mutilation?
  • IdeaGeorgiaHow can Georgia, the birthplace of wine, have more than half its men smoking?
  • IdeaGermanyHow can Germany, the country with the world's oldest national health insurance, have one adult in five living with obesity?
  • IdeaGhanaHow can Ghana, the first sub-Saharan country to win independence, have cut its child death rate by nearly three quarters in little more than a generation?
  • IdeaGreeceHow can Greece, the birthplace of Hippocrates, have more than one in three children overweight?
  • IdeaGrenadaHow can Grenada, the Island of Spice, have about one adult in nine living with diabetes?
  • IdeaGuatemalaHow can Guatemala, the land of eternal spring, have the highest child stunting rate in Latin America?
  • IdeaGuineaHow can Guinea, the water tower of West Africa, have one child in eleven dying before age five?
  • IdeaGuinea-BissauHow can Guinea-Bissau, home of a UNESCO island reserve, have about one child in fifteen dying before age five?
  • IdeaGuyanaHow can Guyana, the fastest-growing economy on earth during its oil boom, have one of the five highest suicide rates in the world?
  • IdeaHaitiHow can Haiti, the only country ever founded by a slave revolt, have the highest child death rate in Latin America and the Caribbean?
  • IdeaHondurasHow can Honduras, home of the Maya city of Copan, have one of the highest murder rates on earth?
  • IdeaHungaryHow can Hungary, the spa capital of Europe, have the highest cancer death rate in the EU?
  • IdeaIndonesiaHow can Indonesia, the world's largest archipelagic nation, have nearly two in three men using tobacco?
  • IdeaIranHow can Iran, home of one of the world's oldest empires, have a road death rate well above the world average?
  • IdeaIraqHow can Iraq, the cradle of writing, have one child in forty-six die before the age of five?
  • IdeaIrelandHow can Ireland, where almost four in five say their health is good, have more than one adult in four living with obesity?
  • IdeaIsraelHow can Israel, the Start-up Nation, have one of the lowest early deaths from chronic disease in Europe?
  • IdeaJamaicaHow can Jamaica, home of the fastest man on earth, have one adult in eight living with diabetes?
  • IdeaJordanHow can Jordan, home of Petra, one of the New Seven Wonders of the World, have nearly half its women living with obesity?
  • IdeaKazakhstanHow can Kazakhstan, the largest landlocked country on earth, have cut child deaths by more than three quarters in a quarter century?
  • IdeaKenyaHow can Kenya, home of the world's best distance runners, have more than one adult in four with high blood pressure?
  • IdeaKiribatiHow can Kiribati, home of one of the largest marine reserves on earth, have more than half its women living with obesity?
  • IdeaNorth KoreaHow can North Korea, the country whose constitution guarantees free medical care, have children dying at six times the rate of South Korea?
  • IdeaKuwaitHow can Kuwait, the first Gulf nation to elect a parliament, have more than one adult in five living with diabetes?
  • IdeaKyrgyzstanHow can Kyrgyzstan, home of the second-largest mountain lake in the world, have more than a hundred new tuberculosis cases for every hundred thousand people?
  • IdeaLaosHow can Laos, the land of a million elephants, have bombs from a war over fifty years ago still killing its children?
  • IdeaLatviaHow can Latvia, the nation that sang its way to freedom, have twice the EU average of preventable deaths?
  • IdeaLebanonHow can Lebanon, the Paris of the Middle East, have roughly one adult in eight living with diabetes?
  • IdeaLesothoHow can Lesotho, the only country lying entirely above a thousand metres, have roughly one adult in six living with HIV?
  • IdeaLiberiaHow can Liberia, Africa's first independent republic, have nearly one child in three stunted?
  • IdeaLibyaHow can Libya, home to Leptis Magna, among the best-preserved Roman sites in the Mediterranean, have about one adult in six living with diabetes?
  • IdeaLiechtensteinHow can Liechtenstein, the country that gave up its army more than a century and a half ago, have some of the longest-lived people on earth?
  • IdeaLithuaniaHow can Lithuania, the first Soviet republic to declare independence, have men dying almost nine years before women?
  • IdeaLuxembourgHow can Luxembourg, the richest country in the EU per head, have nearly one child in four overweight or obese?
  • IdeaMadagascarHow can Madagascar, the island where lemurs live and nowhere else, have four in ten children stunted?
  • IdeaMalawiHow can Malawi, the Warm Heart of Africa, have more than one child in three stunted?
  • IdeaMalaysiaHow can Malaysia, home of the tallest twin towers on earth, have more than half its adults overweight or obese?
  • IdeaMaldivesHow can the Maldives, the paradise of a thousand islands, have more than half its adults overweight?
  • IdeaMaliHow can Mali, home of Timbuktu's ancient libraries, have more than one child in four stunted?
  • IdeaMaltaHow can Malta, home of temples older than the pyramids, have the highest obesity rate in the EU?
  • IdeaMarshall IslandsHow can the Marshall Islands, home of the ocean's stick-chart navigators, have the second-highest diabetes rate on earth?
  • IdeaMauritaniaHow can Mauritania, home of Chinguetti, a desert city on UNESCO's World Heritage list, lose one child in twenty-seven before age five?
  • IdeaMauritiusHow can Mauritius, the Switzerland of Africa, have one adult in five living with diabetes?
  • IdeaMicronesiaHow can Micronesia, home of the star navigators who sailed the open Pacific without instruments, have more than half its women living with obesity?
  • IdeaMoldovaHow can Moldova, home of the wine cellars Guinness once named the largest on earth, have alcohol linked to more than one death in five?
  • IdeaMonacoHow can Monaco, the country that lives longest on earth, die six years sooner than its own statistics say?
  • IdeaMontenegroHow can Montenegro, the country named after its Black Mountain, have more than one adult in three smoking, among the highest rates in Europe?
  • IdeaMoroccoHow can Morocco, the first African and Arab country to reach a World Cup semi-final, have a road death rate more than three times France's?
  • IdeaMozambiqueHow can Mozambique, the nation that won its freedom from Portugal after a ten-year war, have more than one child in three stunted?
  • IdeaMyanmarHow can Myanmar, the country of the Bagan temple plains, have mothers dying in childbirth at more than five times Thailand's rate?
  • IdeaNamibiaHow can Namibia, one of the most sparsely populated countries on earth, have a top-ten HIV rate in the world?
  • IdeaNepalHow can Nepal, the birthplace of the Buddha, have cut its child death rate by more than four in five since the nineties?
  • IdeaNew ZealandHow can New Zealand, the first country to give women the vote, have Māori men dying more than seven years sooner than other men?
  • IdeaNicaraguaHow can Nicaragua, the land of poets, have the highest teen birth rate in Latin America and the Caribbean?
  • IdeaNigerHow can Niger, home of the Sahara's caravan city, have three in four girls married before eighteen?
  • IdeaNigeriaHow can Nigeria, Africa's most populous nation, have more children dying before age five than any country on earth?
  • IdeaNorth MacedoniaHow can North Macedonia, the birthplace of Mother Teresa, have almost four in ten adults using tobacco?
  • IdeaOmanHow can Oman, the Land of Frankincense, have nearly one adult in six with diabetes?
  • IdeaPakistanHow can Pakistan, home of one of the world's first planned cities, have more than one child in twenty dying before the age of five?
  • IdeaPalauHow can Palau, the country that made its whole ocean a shark sanctuary, have more than eight in ten adults overweight or obese?
  • IdeaPanamaHow can Panama, the country whose canal joins two oceans, have more than one adult in ten living with diabetes?
  • IdeaPapua New GuineaHow can Papua New Guinea, the country with more languages than any other on earth, have one child in twenty-five dying before the age of five?
  • IdeaParaguayHow can Paraguay, home of the Jesuit missions of the Guarani, have the third-highest tuberculosis rate in South America?
  • IdeaPeruHow can Peru, the birthplace of the potato, have one in five rural children stunted?
  • IdeaPhilippinesHow can the Philippines, the third largest Catholic population on earth, have more tuberculosis than all but two countries?
  • IdeaPolandHow can Poland, the country that held the first free election in the Soviet bloc, have heart and circulatory disease behind more than one in three deaths?
  • IdeaPortugalHow can Portugal, the country that decriminalised every drug, have a drug death rate about half the EU average?
  • IdeaRomaniaHow can Romania, the Latin-speaking country in Eastern Europe, have heart and blood vessel disease behind more than half of all deaths?
  • IdeaRussiaHow can Russia, the country that sent the first human into space, have alcohol behind one in five deaths among its men?
  • IdeaSaint Kitts and NevisHow can Saint Kitts and Nevis, the smallest country in the Americas, have almost one woman in three obese?
  • IdeaSaint LuciaHow can Saint Lucia, home of the twin Pitons, have more than half its women not moving enough?
  • IdeaSaint Vincent and the GrenadinesHow can Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, home of the Caribbean's last whalers, have nearly one in four adults dying of chronic disease before seventy?
  • IdeaSamoaHow can Samoa, home of the fearsome Manu Samoa rugby team, have more than half its women living with obesity?
  • IdeaSan MarinoHow can San Marino, the oldest surviving republic on earth, have more than one adult in twelve living with diabetes?
  • IdeaSao Tome and PrincipeHow can Sao Tome and Principe, the chocolate island, have more than half its adults overweight?
  • IdeaSaudi ArabiaHow can Saudi Arabia, Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques, have more than two in five women obese?
  • IdeaSenegalHow can Senegal, the land of Teranga, have one child in ten acutely malnourished?
  • IdeaSerbiaHow can Serbia, home of Novak Djokovic, have more than one adult in three smoking?
  • IdeaSeychellesHow can Seychelles, the first country to sell a blue bond, have more than one man in three smoking?
  • IdeaSierra LeoneHow can Sierra Leone, whose capital was founded as a home for freed slaves, have one child in eleven dying before age five?
  • IdeaSlovakiaHow can Slovakia, home of the High Tatras, have more than one adult in four obese?
  • IdeaSloveniaHow can Slovenia, home of Europe's Green Capital, have two in five women not moving enough?
  • IdeaSolomon IslandsHow can Solomon Islands, home of the largest double-barrier lagoon in the world, have more than one woman in four obese?
  • IdeaSomaliaHow can Somalia, the Pearl of the Indian Ocean, have one child in ten dying before age five?
  • IdeaSouth AfricaHow can South Africa, the home of the first human heart transplant, have the largest HIV epidemic on earth?
  • IdeaSouth SudanHow can South Sudan, the newest country on earth, have one of the deadliest places on earth to give birth?
  • IdeaSpainHow can Spain, the world champion of organ donation, have more than one in three children overweight?
  • IdeaSri LankaHow can Sri Lanka, the first country on earth to elect a woman prime minister, have men dying by suicide at more than five times the rate of women?
  • IdeaSudanHow can Sudan, the country with more pyramids than Egypt, have one child in sixteen dying before the age of five?
  • IdeaSurinameHow can Suriname, the only Dutch-speaking country in South America, have one adult in seven living with diabetes?
  • IdeaSwedenHow can Sweden, the country that gave the world the three-point seatbelt, have one of the lowest road death rates in Europe?
  • IdeaSwitzerlandHow can Switzerland, a country that has stayed out of foreign wars for more than two centuries, have gunshot deaths that are mostly suicides?
  • IdeaSyriaHow can Syria, home of Damascus, one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the world, have more than half a million children out of primary school?
  • IdeaTajikistanHow can Tajikistan, home of two of the three highest peaks in the former Soviet Union, have one of the highest tuberculosis rates in Europe and Central Asia?
  • IdeaTanzaniaHow can Tanzania, home of Africa's highest mountain, lose one child in twenty-seven before the age of five?
  • IdeaThailandHow can Thailand, the only Southeast Asian country never colonised by a Western power, have one of the deadliest roads on earth?
  • IdeaTimor-LesteHow can Timor-Leste, the first new sovereign state of the twenty-first century, have one of the highest tuberculosis rates on earth?
  • IdeaTogoHow can Togo, home of UNESCO's Batammariba mud tower-houses, lose roughly one child in eighteen before the age of five?
  • IdeaTongaHow can Tonga, the Friendly Islands, have the highest share of women with obesity on earth?
  • IdeaTrinidad and TobagoHow can Trinidad and Tobago, the birthplace of the steelpan, have one adult in eight living with diabetes?
  • IdeaTunisiaHow can Tunisia, the first Arab country to ban polygamy, have more than a third of its women living with obesity?
  • IdeaTurkeyHow can Turkey, home of one of the oldest known megalithic sites on earth, have the highest diabetes rate in Europe and Central Asia?
  • IdeaTurkmenistanHow can Turkmenistan, the country that built the White Marble City, have the highest child death rate in Europe and Central Asia?
  • IdeaTuvaluHow can Tuvalu, the country whose .tv domain brings in major government revenue, have nearly one adult in five living with diabetes?
  • IdeaUgandaHow can Uganda, the only African country to clearly reverse its HIV epidemic, still have about one adult in twenty living with HIV?
  • IdeaUkraineHow can Ukraine, the breadbasket of Europe, have one of the highest tuberculosis rates in Europe?
  • IdeaUnited Arab EmiratesHow can the UAE, the country that built the tallest building on earth, have one in five adults living with diabetes?
  • IdeaUnited KingdomHow can Britain, the birthplace of the NHS, have three in five adults overweight or obese?
  • IdeaUzbekistanHow can Uzbekistan, the heart of the Silk Road, have air pollution killing around twenty-five thousand people in a single year?
  • IdeaVanuatuHow can Vanuatu, the country with the world's highest linguistic density per capita, have nearly one in five adults living with diabetes?
  • IdeaVenezuelaHow can Venezuela, sitting on the largest oil reserves on earth, have the second-highest rate of children dying before age five in South America?
  • IdeaVietnamHow can Vietnam, the country that beat the United States in war, have four in ten of its men smoking?
  • IdeaYemenHow can Yemen, the birthplace of coffee, have one child in twenty-five dying before the age of five?
  • IdeaZambiaHow can Zambia, home of the Smoke That Thunders, have nearly one in ten adults living with HIV?
  • IdeaZimbabweHow can Zimbabwe, one of the most literate countries in Africa, have one adult in ten living with HIV?
  • IdeaVatican CityHow can Vatican City, the smallest country on earth, have the oldest median age on earth?
  • IdeaPalestineHow can Palestine, home of the oldest fortified city in the world, have more than one child in thirty dying before age five?
  • IdeaKosovoHow can Kosovo, the youngest country in Europe, lose more than twice as many children before age five as Denmark?
  • IdeaTaiwanHow can Taiwan, where almost every resident is covered by national health insurance, have one of the highest kidney failure rates on earth?
  • IdeaHong KongHow can Hong Kong, one of the longest-lived places on earth, have one of the lowest birth rates anywhere?
  • IdeaMacauHow can Macau, the gambling capital of the world, have avoided more than a tenth of its circulatory deaths with a smoking ban?
  • IdeaGreenlandHow can Greenland, the largest island on earth, lose more than four young men in every thousand to suicide each year?
  • IdeaPuerto RicoHow can Puerto Rico, the birthplace of the birth control pill, have one adult in five living with diabetes?
  • IdeaFaroe IslandsHow can the Faroe Islands, where the whale hunt is a proud tradition, have children with weaker attention and memory?
  • IdeaGuamHow can Guam, where America's day begins, have nearly one child in four obese?
  • IdeaBermudaHow can Bermuda, among the richest places on earth per person, have more than one adult in eight with diabetes?
  • IdeaCayman IslandsHow can the Cayman Islands, a place with no income tax, have more than one adult in ten with diabetes?
  • IdeaGibraltarHow can Gibraltar, home of the only wild monkeys in Europe, have the worst air of any British territory?
  • IdeaNew CaledoniaHow can New Caledonia, home of a UNESCO-listed lagoon, have its Indigenous Kanak people make up most of its suicides?
  • IdeaFrench PolynesiaHow can French Polynesia, home of Teahupo'o, the wave that hosted the Olympic surfing, have nearly half its adults living with obesity?
  • IdeaAmerican SamoaHow can American Samoa, the island whose people are the most over-represented group in the NFL, have the highest adult obesity rate on earth?
  • IdeaCook IslandsHow can the Cook Islands, home of Marae Moana, once the largest marine park on earth, have the third-highest adult obesity rate of any nation?
  • IdeaNiueHow can Niue, the first entire country declared an International Dark Sky Sanctuary, have two in three adults living with obesity?