Ranking (% obesity by country)

#	Country	% obesity
1	Nauru	59.85
2	American Samoa	58.75
3	Cook Islands	53.97
4	Palau	53.15
5	Marshall Islands	49.85
6	French Polynesia	48.89
7	Tuvalu	48.47
8	Niue	46.17
9	Kiribati	42.87
10	Tonga	42.72
11	Federated States of Micronesia	41.48
12	Tokelau	41.40
13	Samoa	41.28
14	United States	36.47
15	Kuwait	34.28
16	Qatar	33.46
17	Saudi Arabia	31.73
18	New Zealand	31.07
19	Australia	30.57
20	Canada	30.47
21	Malta	30.11
22	Bermuda	29.91
23	Jordan	29.17
24	Hungary	29.12
25	Puerto Rico	29.05
26	United Arab Emirates	28.44
27	Lebanon	28.38
28	Argentina	28.23
29	United Kingdom	27.88
30	Czechia	27.32
31	Palestine	27.17
32	Israel	26.82
33	Andorra	26.75
34	Bahrain	26.46
35	Bulgaria	26.37
36	Ireland	25.97
37	Fiji	25.95
38	Libya	25.85
39	Uruguay	25.79
40	Chile	25.73
41	Spain	25.49
42	Luxembourg	25.38
43	Bahamas	25.30
44	Turkey	25.29
45	Mexico	25.12
46	Iceland	25.11
47	Germany	25.04
48	Greece	25.04
49	Lithuania	25.01
50	Croatia	24.98
51	Greenland	24.66
52	Poland	24.63
53	Finland	24.62
54	Norway	24.49
55	Iraq	24.30
56	Romania	24.22
57	Montenegro	24.11
58	Belgium	23.99
59	Sweden	23.89
60	Oman	23.77
61	Egypt	23.50
62	North Macedonia	23.44
63	Venezuela	23.21
64	Denmark	23.15
65	Switzerland	23.00
66	Belarus	22.91
67	France	22.86
68	Ukraine	22.76
69	Cyprus	22.65
70	Austria	22.65
71	Latvia	22.38
72	Albania	22.37
73	Serbia	21.86
74	Costa Rica	21.83
75	Dominican Republic	21.77
76	Slovakia	21.75
77	Syrian Arab Republic	21.64
78	Netherlands	21.57
79	Estonia	21.13
80	Portugal	21.12
81	Vanuatu	20.96
82	Italy	20.94
83	Dominica	20.69
84	Algeria	20.67
85	Morocco	20.17
86	Slovenia	20.12
87	Iran	19.98
88	Georgia	19.91
89	Tunisia	19.87
90	Cuba	19.67
91	Suriname	19.64
92	El Salvador	19.60
93	Kazakhstan	19.57
94	Brazil	19.24
95	Russian Federation	18.88
96	Haiti	18.63
97	Nicaragua	18.61
98	Solomon Islands	18.61
99	Panama	18.48
100	Colombia	18.28
101	Mongolia	18.24
102	Bosnia and Herzegovina	17.82
103	Paraguay	17.80
104	Armenia	17.75
105	Papua New Guinea	17.26
106	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	17.20
107	Belize	17.12
108	Moldova	16.80
109	Turkmenistan	16.49
110	Azerbaijan	16.47
111	Honduras	16.24
112	South Africa	15.98
113	Saint Kitts and Nevis	15.92
114	Jamaica	15.89
115	Peru	15.77
116	Guatemala	15.67
117	Ecuador	15.45
118	Barbados	15.27
119	Bolivia	15.07
120	Kyrgyzstan	14.60
121	Uzbekistan	14.37
122	Grenada	13.88
123	Malaysia	13.44
124	Guyana	13.20
125	Brunei Darussalam	13.00
126	Saint Lucia	12.49
127	Yemen	12.46
128	Antigua and Barbuda	12.09
129	Tajikistan	12.05
130	Hong Kong	11.38
131	Trinidad and Tobago	11.23
132	Gabon	10.04
133	Djibouti	8.98
134	Botswana	8.50
135	Seychelles	7.90
136	Namibia	7.85
137	Sao Tome and Principe	7.51
138	Taiwan	7.27
139	Thailand	7.26
140	Cabo Verde	7.19
141	Mauritania	6.92
142	Cameroon	6.39
143	North Korea	6.34
144	Pakistan	6.26
145	China	6.11
146	Maldives	6.08
147	Singapore	6.07
148	Cote d'Ivoire	6.07
149	Gambia	5.87
150	Mauritius	5.83
151	Congo	5.77
152	Liberia	5.73
153	Eswatini	5.63
154	Philippines	5.47
155	Guinea-Bissau	5.25
156	Indonesia	4.98
157	Japan	4.97
158	Zimbabwe	4.93
159	Bhutan	4.92
160	Benin	4.90
161	Lesotho	4.86
162	Nigeria	4.82
163	Mali	4.76
164	Ghana	4.75
165	South Korea	4.57
166	Angola	4.23
167	Myanmar	4.21
168	Tanzania	4.16
169	Senegal	4.15
170	Somalia	4.12
171	Togo	4.03
172	Sierra Leone	3.98
173	Equatorial Guinea	3.95
174	Sudan	3.95
175	Laos	3.90
176	Guinea	3.87
177	Central African Republic	3.86
178	Democratic Republic of Congo	3.73
179	Zambia	3.72
180	Comoros	3.44
181	Mozambique	3.42
182	Afghanistan	3.36
183	Chad	3.23
184	Madagascar	3.11
185	Sri Lanka	2.98
186	Kenya	2.97
187	India	2.87
188	Cambodia	2.84
189	Nepal	2.80
190	Timor-Leste	2.76
191	Burkina Faso	2.70
192	Niger	2.58
193	Bangladesh	2.37
194	Malawi	2.31
195	Burundi	2.20
196	Eritrea	2.13
197	Rwanda	2.01
198	Ethiopia	1.98
199	Uganda	1.92
200	Vietnam	1.67

Prevalence of obesity (BMI ≥ 30kg/m²)

Source: NCD ris C estimates

NCD Risk Factor Collaboration (NCD-RisC). Worldwide trends in body-mass index, underweight, overweight, and obesity from 1975 to 2016: a pooled analysis of 2416 population-based measurement studies in 128·9 million children, adolescents, and adults. Lancet. 2017;390(10113):2627‐2642. doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(17)32129-3

Data downloaded and reproduced with permission:

Adult http://ncdrisc.org/data-downloads-adiposity.html
Child & Adolescent http://ncdrisc.org/data-downloads-adiposity-ado.html

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