Americans are short and fertile. The French spend all their time drinking and eating and sleeping. The Japanese work all day and never sleep. It's proven by science!

The Organisation for Economic Co-operating and Development released their "Society at a Glance" numbers and now we get to confirm all sorts of stereotypes about everyone, with actual numbers and charts and stuff to back it up!

Basically Americans are fat and joyless and we hate the children we keep pumping out. And for some reason we're the only country that's not getting taller anymore. What's even more fun is that all these numbers are pre-recession, so things have totally only gotten worse!

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