Ranking (% obesity by country)

#	Country	World Bank income level	% obesity
1	American Samoa	High income	76.84
2	Tonga	Upper-middle income	75.08
3	Cook Islands		73.59
4	Nauru	High income	72.99
5	Tokelau		72.12
6	Niue		68.13
7	Tuvalu	Upper-middle income	66.43
8	Samoa	Upper-middle income	65.90
9	French Polynesia	High income	50.24
10	Federated States of Micronesia	Upper-middle income	49.96
11	Bahamas	High income	49.37
12	Saint Kitts and Nevis	High income	47.81
13	Kiribati	Lower-middle income	46.94
14	Egypt	Lower-middle income	45.40
15	Belize	Upper-middle income	44.46
16	Marshall Islands	Upper-middle income	43.43
17	Puerto Rico	High income	43.43
18	Qatar	High income	42.28
19	United States	High income	41.73
20	Palau	High income	41.62
21	Chile	High income	41.28
22	Saudi Arabia	High income	41.25
23	Kuwait	High income	41.22
24	Iraq	Upper-middle income	40.76
25	Barbados	High income	40.54
26	Fiji	Upper-middle income	40.24
27	Panama	High income	38.85
28	Palestine	Lower-middle income	38.55
29	Argentina	Upper-middle income	38.29
30	Mexico	Upper-middle income	38.26
31	Brunei Darussalam	High income	37.39
32	Georgia	Upper-middle income	36.60
33	Jordan	Upper-middle income	36.58
34	Jamaica	Upper-middle income	36.13
35	Nicaragua	Lower-middle income	35.94
36	Uruguay	High income	35.92
37	Paraguay	Upper-middle income	35.72
38	Saint Lucia	Upper-middle income	35.62
39	Antigua and Barbuda	High income	35.59
40	Bahrain	High income	35.55
41	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	Upper-middle income	35.52
42	Bermuda	High income	35.26
43	New Zealand	High income	34.70
44	Libya	Upper-middle income	34.65
45	Seychelles	High income	34.60
46	Syrian Arab Republic	Low income	33.85
47	Costa Rica	High income	33.70
48	Dominica	Upper-middle income	33.37
49	Romania	High income	33.37
50	El Salvador	Upper-middle income	32.94
51	South Africa	Upper-middle income	32.85
52	Honduras	Lower-middle income	32.70
53	Grenada	Upper-middle income	32.54
54	Uzbekistan	Lower-middle income	32.33
55	Hungary	High income	32.13
56	United Arab Emirates	High income	32.00
57	Trinidad and Tobago	High income	31.81
58	Dominican Republic	Upper-middle income	31.78
59	Suriname	Upper-middle income	31.75
60	Lebanon	Lower-middle income	31.56
61	Croatia	High income	31.55
62	Australia	High income	31.36
63	Malta	High income	31.15
64	Brazil	Upper-middle income	30.98
65	Oman	High income	30.97
66	Guyana	High income	30.90
67	Bolivia	Lower-middle income	30.74
68	Eswatini	Lower-middle income	30.38
69	Peru	Upper-middle income	30.10
70	Ecuador	Upper-middle income	29.94
71	Turkey	Upper-middle income	29.85
72	Papua New Guinea	Lower-middle income	28.89
73	Guatemala	Upper-middle income	28.87
74	Ireland	High income	28.78
75	Azerbaijan	Upper-middle income	28.67
76	Greenland	High income	28.57
77	Greece	High income	28.24
78	United Kingdom	High income	28.21
79	North Macedonia	Upper-middle income	27.70
80	Czechia	High income	27.16
81	Tunisia	Lower-middle income	27.01
82	Slovakia	High income	26.75
83	Canada	High income	26.50
84	Mongolia	Upper-middle income	25.87
85	Armenia	Upper-middle income	25.85
86	Colombia	Upper-middle income	25.73
87	Iran	Upper-middle income	25.38
88	Pakistan	Lower-middle income	25.24
89	Albania	Upper-middle income	25.05
90	Mauritania	Lower-middle income	24.81
91	Finland	High income	24.76
92	Algeria	Upper-middle income	24.32
93	Tajikistan	Lower-middle income	23.90
94	Cuba	Upper-middle income	23.86
95	Venezuela	Lower-middle income	23.69
96	Ukraine	Upper-middle income	23.66
97	Malaysia	Upper-middle income	23.63
98	Gabon	Upper-middle income	23.54
99	Vanuatu	Lower-middle income	23.53
100	Moldova	Upper-middle income	23.05
101	Turkmenistan	Upper-middle income	22.95
102	Israel	High income	22.90
103	Kyrgyzstan	Lower-middle income	22.90
104	Latvia	High income	22.79
105	Lesotho	Lower-middle income	22.79
106	Iceland	High income	22.74
107	Solomon Islands	Lower-middle income	22.65
108	Serbia	Upper-middle income	22.40
109	Morocco	Lower-middle income	22.35
110	Poland	High income	22.31
111	Cyprus	High income	22.15
112	Lithuania	High income	21.85
113	Kazakhstan	Upper-middle income	21.80
114	Bosnia and Herzegovina	Upper-middle income	21.63
115	Mauritius	Upper-middle income	21.48
116	Belgium	High income	21.34
117	Belarus	Upper-middle income	21.32
118	Germany	High income	21.20
119	Afghanistan	Low income	21.05
120	Bulgaria	High income	20.90
121	Estonia	High income	20.90
122	Norway	High income	20.57
123	Botswana	Upper-middle income	20.46
124	Slovenia	High income	20.22
125	Equatorial Guinea	Upper-middle income	19.75
126	Luxembourg	High income	19.63
127	Namibia	Lower-middle income	18.97
128	Portugal	High income	18.73
129	Sao Tome and Principe	Lower-middle income	18.69
130	Sudan	Low income	18.37
131	Liberia	Low income	18.33
132	Russian Federation	High income	18.13
133	Maldives	Upper-middle income	18.02
134	Sweden	High income	17.87
135	Montenegro	Upper-middle income	17.69
136	Andorra	High income	17.59
137	Cabo Verde	Upper-middle income	17.45
138	Comoros	Lower-middle income	17.36
139	Singapore	High income	17.05
140	Austria	High income	16.79
141	Cameroon	Lower-middle income	16.71
142	Thailand	Upper-middle income	16.50
143	Spain	High income	15.72
144	Somalia	Low income	15.36
145	Netherlands	High income	15.13
146	Zimbabwe	Lower-middle income	15.09
147	Ghana	Lower-middle income	15.07
148	Denmark	High income	14.60
149	Italy	High income	14.38
150	Nigeria	Lower-middle income	14.22
151	Mali	Low income	13.81
152	Yemen	Low income	13.77
153	Bhutan	Lower-middle income	13.53
154	Togo	Lower-middle income	13.45
155	Cote d'Ivoire	Lower-middle income	13.30
156	Guinea-Bissau	Low income	13.13
157	Angola	Lower-middle income	13.12
158	Gambia	Low income	12.85
159	Benin	Lower-middle income	12.68
160	Congo	Lower-middle income	12.67
161	North Korea	Low income	12.26
162	Indonesia	Upper-middle income	12.14
163	Chinese Taipei	High income	12.13
164	Senegal	Lower-middle income	12.07
165	Djibouti	Lower-middle income	12.06
166	Tanzania	Lower-middle income	11.87
167	Zambia	Lower-middle income	11.87
168	Kenya	Lower-middle income	11.72
169	Haiti	Lower-middle income	11.58
170	Switzerland	High income	11.58
171	Sri Lanka	Upper-middle income	11.56
172	France	High income	11.54
173	Central African Republic	Low income	11.22
174	Guinea	Lower-middle income	10.96
175	Mozambique	Low income	10.80
176	Philippines	Upper-middle income	9.88
177	Uganda	Low income	9.77
178	Laos	Lower-middle income	9.47
179	China	Upper-middle income	9.36
180	South Sudan	Low income	9.17
181	Myanmar	Lower-middle income	8.46
182	Sierra Leone	Low income	8.46
183	India	Lower-middle income	8.28
184	Malawi	Low income	8.25
185	Nepal	Lower-middle income	8.25
186	South Korea	High income	8.22
187	Burkina Faso	Low income	7.94
188	Chad	Low income	7.74
189	Niger	Low income	7.04
190	Democratic Republic of Congo	Low income	6.96
191	Bangladesh	Lower-middle income	5.95
192	Japan	High income	5.92
193	Rwanda	Low income	5.78
194	Burundi	Low income	5.42
195	Cambodia	Lower-middle income	5.09
196	Madagascar	Low income	4.70
197	Eritrea	Low income	4.47
198	Timor-Leste	Lower-middle income	3.73
199	Ethiopia	Low income	3.02
200	Vietnam	Upper-middle income	2.41

Prevalence of obesity (BMI ≥ 30kg/m²)

Source: NCD ris C estimates

These figures are estimates of age-standardised prevalence of obesity produced by NCD RisC, based on an analysis of 4050 population-based studies with 232 million participants that measured height and weight in representative samples of the general population.

Source: NCD Risk Factor Collaboration (NCD-RisC). Obesity rise plateaus in developed nations and accelerates in developing nations. Nature 653, 510–518 (2026). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-026-10383-0

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