Band 4+: The line graph below shows past and current overweight rates, as well as a projected future overweight rate in nine selected countries. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.

The line graph illustrate, percentage rate for overweight people in 3 forms past, present and future for nine selected countries, “The USA ,England, Austria, Australia, Korea, Italy, Canada, Spain and France. years mentioned on the X-axis of graph and Proportion overweight are given in percentage on the Y-axis.

Overall, The USA and England have highest overweight rates compared to other countries, which is beyond 70% . Where Australia , Spain and Canada have above 50% with second highest position and other four countries are below to 40%.

To begin with, The USA and England have continuously rising line which goes above 60%, around 1982 The USA overweight ration was something about 45% which continuously increased with one minor decline in late 1990, also the future projected overweight ration for USA is nearly 75%. on the other hand England and Australia both have nearly overweight ratio between 60 to 70 percentage. Australia and England’s overweight ration was started growing in late 20’s and continually rise upto 60% with minor fluctuations. Where The Korea has lowest overweight ratio among all the countries. which was started around 2009 and got minor fluctuation in between 2010 to 2020, afterwards it rise continuously upto 30%.

In addition Austria and Canada both have projected ratio in 2030 is around 55%. overweight ration was started in Canada around 2005 where in Spain it was in late 20’s. both countries line was fluctuated in starting decade but it also grown upto 50%. On the other hand France and Italy have similar projected ration which is about to 45%, overweighted ratio for both countries were started around 2000 and get noticable fluctuations across the different decades.