What English researchers from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine did four years ago. It was not hard, it was enough to multiply the average weight of an individual by 7.5 billion (we were 7.5 billion in 2018), which gave us a total of 287 million tons. This is the weight of humanity.
How much does an earthling weigh? According to the English magazine BMC Public Health, 62 kilos on average! Of course, it varies according to the regions of the world: in North America, it’s 80.7 kilos… in Asia, 57.7.
You should also know that of the 287 million tons of people on Earth, there are more than 18 million who are due to overweight and obesity, which corresponds, I read, to the weight of…
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