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This is a list of countries ranked by the proportion of the population that is obese.The data, barring the United States, is derived from The World Factbook authored by the Central Intelligence Agency, [1] which gives the adult prevalence rate for obesity, defined as "the percent of a country's population considered to be obese".
An online shop evokes the physical analogy of buying products or services at a regular "brick-and-mortar" retailer or shopping center; the process is called business-to-consumer (B2C) online shopping. When an online store is set up to enable businesses to buy from another businesses, the process is called business-to-business (B2B) online shopping.
The OECD is the successor organization to the Organisation for European Economic Co-operation (OEEC),[ 15] established in April 1948 among the European recipients of Marshall Plan aid for the reconstruction of Europe after World War II. [ 16][ 17][ 18] Only Western European states were members of the OEEC, whose primary function was the ...
The galaxy's name stems from the area of Earth's sky in which it appears, the constellation of Andromeda, which itself is named after the princess who was the wife of Perseus in Greek mythology. [8] The virial mass of the Andromeda Galaxy is of the same order of magnitude as that of the Milky Way, at 1 trillion solar masses (2.0 × 10 42 ...