Where do people get the most plastic surgery in the world?

Aesthetic corrections through surgery are being done all over the world. According to the International Society of Aesthetic Plastic Surgery, there are certain countries where people have much more cosmetic surgery than in others. Here's the top 10 of the most recently documented year, based on the statistics of ISAPS.org.

In the most recently documented year, 2021, residents of the United States underwent 24.1% of all aesthetic procedures in the world. They are number one when it comes to cosmetic touch-ups.

Surgical procedures: 1,992,296

Non-surgical procedures: 5,355,604

Total: 7,347,900

Total percentage in the world: 24.1%

Between the U.S. and the second largest consumer of plastic surgery, Brazil, there is quite a gap. South America's biggest nation makes up 8.9% of all cosmetic procedures in the world.

Surgical procedures:  1,634,220

Non-surgical procedures: 1,089,420

Total: 2,723,640

Total percentage in the world: 8.9%

Japan wasn't in the top 10 of worldwide cosmetic surgeries in the previous year, 2020, but in 2021, it was home to 5.7% of all procedures.

Surgical procedures: 265,733

Non-surgical procedures: 1,479,888

Total: 1,745,621

Total percentage in the world: 5.7%

According to the International Society of Aesthetic Plastic Surgery, a relatively high number of foreign patients comes to Mexico for cosmetic procedures. This in part explains the nation's high place in the ranking, with 4.2%.

Surgical procedures: 672,683

Non-surgical procedures: 597,923

Total: 1,270,605

Total percentage in the world: 4.2%

Surgical procedures: 385,906

Non-surgical procedures: 536,150

Total: 1,082,892

Total percentage in the world: 3.6%

Surgical procedures: 398,980

Non-surgical procedures: 669,280

Total: 1,068,260

Total percentage in the world: 3.5%

Turkey, along with Mexico, Colombia, and Thailand, has the most foreign patients for cosmetic procedures.

Surgical procedures: 464,490

Non-surgical procedures: 485,875

Total: 950,365

Total percentage in the world: 3.1%

Surgical procedures: 370,656

Non-surgical procedures: 404,016

Total: 774,672

Total percentage in the world: 2.5%

Surgical procedures: 283,668

Non-surgical procedures: 385,116

Total: 668,784

Total percentage in the world: 2.2%

Surgical procedures: 374,076

Non-surgical procedures: 181,200

Total: 555,276

Total percentage in the world: 1.8%

The most popular cosmetic surgery is the augmentation of breasts. A total of 1,658,673 operations make this the number one in the world.

The number two, close to the number one, is liposuction. It extracts fat or fat tissue from the body by using a cannula or syringe connected to a suction machine. No less than 1,625,283 women have undergone this process, making liposuction the second most popular cosmetic procedure in the world.

Blepharoplasty is the scientific name for eyelid surgery. Basically, the operation corrects the excess skin above the eye, produced by the passage of time. There have been 1,142,957 women to the doctor in the past year to correct their eyelids.

An abdominoplasty can correct the skin, fat, and muscles of the abdomen. They can be changed all at once in one operation. Of the 904,846 women who had an abdominoplasty, many chose this operation after a pregnancy.

While the increased size of the breast was the first petition of women at the surgeon's table, the lifting of breasts comes in at number five. Up to 781,404 women have chosen this procedure, which recovers the tension of the breasts without touching their size.

Bone hump, a protruding bone, and deviations or malformations of the nose can be corrected with a rhinoplasty. In the past year, 738,743 women had such an operation done.

Anyone who thinks that eyelid correction is a women's thing: it's not. In fact, the most popular cosmetic operation for men in 2021 was eyelid surgery. 303,932 men had excess skin removed from their eyelids, which made it the number one surgery for them.

Number two is an interesting procedure. Most men don't even know it, but gynecomastia is a popular plastic surgery that men are having done around the world. It's another word for the reduction of the breast. 282,997 men had the operation in 2021.

The reduction of body volume by means of liposuction appealed to 277,779 men, which means that millions of kilos of fat were removed.

Another aesthetic operation shared by men and women is the correction of the nose. However, the volume of men with rhinoplasty is lower than that of women. They only had 256,406 operations last year, but the trend is moving upward.

Of course, the ears are on this list of aesthetic surgeries! The reshaping, reducing, and even gluing of the ears is what 101,382 men asked for last year.

Getting a six-pack is the untold dream of millions of men. To achieve it, some start with abdominoplasty and work on their abdomen from there. As many as 86,515 men have gone through this kind of surgery.

After reviewing the invasive surgeries, there remains a large number of non-invasive aesthetic touches. The absolute queen among those is the botulinum toxin, better known as Botox. 6,252,548 women had it done in the past year. It is also the most common non-invasive procedure for men: roughly a million applied it in 2021.

Hyaluronic acid stops the obvious signs of aging from developing. For 4,694,030 women it was the go-to procedure last year. Men use it less (585,315) but their numbers are growing.

You may have thought that hair implants would be on this list, but it's the opposite that gets the most customers. Removing your hair (anywhere on your body) through laser technology is fast, relatively low in price, and highly effective. In addition to the 1,585,732 women who got permanent depilation in 2021, there were 250,379 men who also chose to eliminate hair from their bodies forever.