America's Soda Consumption Is So Insane, They Literally Had To Expand This Chart To Fit It

This chart - taken from a new study by Credit Suisse titled "Sugar consumption at a crossroads" - shows a general correlation between GDP per capita and soda consumption per capita.

In other words, as countries get richer, they tend to increase their soda consumption.

The U.S. is clearly the most extreme outlier. Soda consumption per capita in America is way more than the relationship to GDP per capita would suggest.

Note that it's such an outlier, that they literally had to expand this chart to make it. Without the U.S., there would have been no need for the 160 litres axis.