Presentation maps
Insufficient physical activity
% Adults attaining <150 minutes of moderate-intensity physical activity per week, or <75 minutes of vigorous-intensity physical activity per week, or equivalent. All adults
Key
< 10%
10-20%
20-30%
30-40%
≥ 40%
Africa region
- Mauritania: 41.3%
- Mali: 40.4%
- South Africa: 38.2%
- Algeria: 33.6%
- Namibia: 33.4%
Americas region
- Brazil: 47%
- Costa Rica: 46.1%
- Suriname: 44.4%
- Colombia: 44%
- Bahamas: 43.3%
Eastern Mediterranean region
- Kuwait: 67%
- Saudi Arabia: 53.1%
- Iraq: 52%
- United Arab Emirates: 41.4%
- Qatar: 36.8%
European region
- Cyprus: 44.4%
- Portugal: 43.4%
- Germany: 42.2%
- Malta: 41.7%
- Italy: 41.4%
SE Asia region
- India: 34%
- Maldives: 30.3%
- Sri Lanka: 28.9%
- Bangladesh: 27.8%
- Thailand: 24.6%
Western Pacific region
- Marshall Islands: 43.5%
- New Zealand: 42.4%
- Nauru: 42.1%
- Palau: 40.9%
- Kiribati: 40.4%
Source: Guthold R, Stevens GA, Riley LM, Bull FC. Worldwide trends in insufficient physical activity from 2001 to 2016: a pooled analysis of 358 population-based surveys with 1.9 million participants. Lancet 2018 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S2214-109X(18)30357-7
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