Ten destinations vs. the USA, to scale

Mean height and mean BMI of women aged 20–39, drawn at true relative height. US women average 163 lb — 47 lb more than Japan, the lightest of the ten.

Eleven silhouettes drawn at true relative height showing mean height and BMI of women aged 20 to 39 in the USA and ten destination countries

Vertical is mean height on a shared axis. Width is √(BMI × height), applied below the neck only — the shapes are schematic, the heights are to scale.

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Where this is wrong

Weight is implied from BMI and height, not measured.
Height is NCD-RisC's mean at age 19; BMI is the 2016 release re-weighted to ages 20–39. They are different vintages.
Country means say nothing about any individual, and nothing about a particular city.
The ten destinations are the most-discussed on r/thepassportbros, not a ranking of anything.

Sources

[{'label': 'NCD Risk Factor Collaboration (NCD-RisC)', 'url': 'https://ncdrisc.org/'}]

Ratio, cost and safety by city are on the research desk.

Shortlist by the numbers that move →

Height barely varies between these countries; the ratio, cost and safety do — those are the ones worth sorting on.

The per-market deep-dives — 13 tabs of cost, visa, tax, safety and sub-national ratio for one country — are behind the Pro gate. Everything on this page is not.