Ranking (% obesity by country)

#	Country	Income group	% obesity
1	Tonga	Upper-middle income	81.46
2	American Samoa	High income	81.42
3	Samoa	Lower-middle income	74.93
4	Tokelau		74.90
5	Tuvalu	Upper-middle income	73.17
6	Cook Islands		73.11
7	Nauru	High income	72.52
8	Niue		70.90
9	Egypt	Lower-middle income	58.99
10	Federated States of Micronesia	Lower-middle income	57.45
11	Kiribati	Lower-middle income	57.16
12	Marshall Islands	Upper-middle income	56.52
13	Bahamas	High income	55.81
14	Saint Kitts and Nevis	High income	55.10
15	Belize	Upper-middle income	53.07
16	Qatar	High income	52.46
17	French Polynesia	High income	51.03
18	Kuwait	High income	49.94
19	Jamaica	Upper-middle income	49.63
20	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	Upper-middle income	49.55
21	Iraq	Upper-middle income	49.50
22	Barbados	High income	49.15
23	Saudi Arabia	High income	48.34
24	Libya	Upper-middle income	47.67
25	South Africa	Upper-middle income	47.35
26	Palestine	Lower-middle income	47.24
27	Saint Lucia	Upper-middle income	47.15
28	Puerto Rico	High income	47.05
29	Jordan	Lower-middle income	46.10
30	Dominica	Upper-middle income	45.77
31	Eswatini	Lower-middle income	45.43
32	Palau	High income	45.30
33	Chile	High income	45.17
34	Bahrain	High income	44.32
35	Panama	High income	44.23
36	United States	High income	43.82
37	Fiji	Upper-middle income	43.22
38	Grenada	Upper-middle income	43.17
39	Antigua and Barbuda	High income	42.81
40	Bermuda	High income	42.79
41	Syrian Arab Republic	Low income	42.70
42	Turkey	Upper-middle income	42.62
43	Mexico	Upper-middle income	41.28
44	Oman	High income	41.21
45	Seychelles	High income	40.88
46	United Arab Emirates	High income	40.80
47	Nicaragua	Lower-middle income	40.24
48	Suriname	Upper-middle income	39.85
49	Guyana	High income	39.38
50	Costa Rica	Upper-middle income	39.04
51	El Salvador	Upper-middle income	38.46
52	Argentina	Upper-middle income	37.24
53	Honduras	Lower-middle income	37.17
54	Paraguay	Upper-middle income	37.15
55	Uruguay	High income	36.66
56	Dominican Republic	Upper-middle income	36.52
57	Georgia	Upper-middle income	36.47
58	Mauritania	Lower-middle income	36.15
59	Bolivia	Lower-middle income	35.58
60	New Zealand	High income	35.55
61	Tunisia	Lower-middle income	35.30
62	Trinidad and Tobago	High income	34.64
63	Uzbekistan	Lower-middle income	34.16
64	Azerbaijan	Upper-middle income	34.10
65	Brunei Darussalam	High income	34.10
66	Lesotho	Lower-middle income	33.91
67	Ecuador	Upper-middle income	33.49
68	Algeria	Upper-middle income	33.40
69	Gabon	Upper-middle income	32.87
70	Brazil	Upper-middle income	32.60
71	Peru	Upper-middle income	32.53
72	Guatemala	Upper-middle income	32.42
73	Iran	Upper-middle income	32.04
74	Romania	High income	31.95
75	Lebanon	Lower-middle income	31.76
76	Morocco	Lower-middle income	31.40
77	Greenland	High income	31.14
78	Equatorial Guinea	Upper-middle income	30.40
79	Australia	High income	30.00
80	Colombia	Upper-middle income	29.92
81	Kyrgyzstan	Lower-middle income	29.75
82	Malta	High income	29.38
83	Armenia	Upper-middle income	29.36
84	Hungary	High income	28.94
85	Tajikistan	Lower-middle income	28.76
86	Solomon Islands	Lower-middle income	28.69
87	United Kingdom	High income	28.30
88	Croatia	High income	28.26
89	Botswana	Upper-middle income	28.25
90	Ireland	High income	27.86
91	North Macedonia	Upper-middle income	27.72
92	Greece	High income	27.69
93	Ukraine	Upper-middle income	27.50
94	Malaysia	Upper-middle income	27.34
95	Mongolia	Upper-middle income	27.15
96	Vanuatu	Lower-middle income	27.12
97	Pakistan	Lower-middle income	26.94
98	Albania	Upper-middle income	26.34
99	Papua New Guinea	Lower-middle income	25.99
100	Mauritius	Upper-middle income	25.93
101	Cuba	Upper-middle income	25.87
102	Venezuela		25.77
103	Comoros	Lower-middle income	25.39
104	Canada	High income	25.32
105	Moldova	Upper-middle income	25.21
106	Russian Federation	High income	25.14
107	Turkmenistan	Upper-middle income	24.66
108	Poland	High income	24.62
109	Afghanistan	Low income	24.39
110	Maldives	Upper-middle income	24.22
111	Sao Tome and Principe	Lower-middle income	24.22
112	Lithuania	High income	24.12
113	Latvia	High income	23.98
114	Slovakia	High income	23.90
115	Somalia	Low income	23.84
116	Namibia	Upper-middle income	23.83
117	Cabo Verde	Lower-middle income	23.82
118	Belarus	Upper-middle income	23.70
119	Sudan	Low income	23.16
120	Czechia	High income	23.10
121	Portugal	High income	23.02
122	Israel	High income	22.52
123	Estonia	High income	22.21
124	Finland	High income	22.07
125	Zimbabwe	Lower-middle income	21.80
126	Liberia	Low income	21.71
127	Bosnia and Herzegovina	Upper-middle income	21.55
128	Belgium	High income	21.21
129	Cameroon	Lower-middle income	21.20
130	Ghana	Lower-middle income	21.14
131	Cyprus	High income	20.91
132	Gambia	Low income	20.82
133	Serbia	Upper-middle income	20.03
134	Iceland	High income	19.78
135	Kenya	Lower-middle income	19.31
136	Tanzania	Lower-middle income	19.02
137	Germany	High income	18.96
138	Kazakhstan	Upper-middle income	18.92
139	Thailand	Upper-middle income	18.60
140	Bulgaria	High income	18.56
141	Togo	Low income	18.11
142	Norway	High income	18.10
143	Yemen	Low income	17.70
144	Italy	High income	17.65
145	Nigeria	Lower-middle income	17.26
146	Luxembourg	High income	17.03
147	Zambia	Lower-middle income	16.99
148	Djibouti	Lower-middle income	16.94
149	Angola	Lower-middle income	16.88
150	Indonesia	Upper-middle income	16.58
151	Cote d'Ivoire	Lower-middle income	16.32
152	Senegal	Lower-middle income	16.23
153	Montenegro	Upper-middle income	16.14
154	Bhutan	Lower-middle income	16.12
155	Andorra	High income	16.05
156	Benin	Lower-middle income	15.62
157	Guinea-Bissau	Low income	15.48
158	Haiti	Lower-middle income	15.30
159	Netherlands	High income	14.92
160	Sri Lanka	Lower-middle income	14.68
161	Mozambique	Low income	14.28
162	Slovenia	High income	14.13
163	Sweden	High income	14.00
164	Mali	Low income	13.43
165	North Korea	Low income	13.42
166	Congo	Lower-middle income	13.29
167	Guinea	Lower-middle income	13.23
168	Spain	High income	13.03
169	Central African Republic	Low income	12.81
170	Austria	High income	12.62
171	Malawi	Low income	12.28
172	South Sudan	Low income	12.19
173	Sierra Leone	Low income	11.86
174	Uganda	Low income	11.77
175	Singapore	High income	11.65
176	Denmark	High income	11.42
177	Philippines	Lower-middle income	10.63
178	Laos	Lower-middle income	10.50
179	Taiwan	High income	10.08
180	Switzerland	High income	9.91
181	France	High income	9.82
182	India	Lower-middle income	9.78
183	Myanmar	Lower-middle income	9.73
184	Burkina Faso	Low income	9.62
185	Democratic Republic of Congo	Low income	9.35
186	Nepal	Lower-middle income	9.22
187	Rwanda	Low income	8.01
188	Niger	Low income	7.95
189	Bangladesh	Lower-middle income	7.81
190	China	Upper-middle income	7.78
191	Eritrea	Low income	6.89
192	Chad	Low income	6.31
193	Cambodia	Lower-middle income	5.86
194	South Korea	High income	5.65
195	Ethiopia	Low income	4.71
196	Madagascar	Low income	4.26
197	Burundi	Low income	4.20
198	Japan	High income	3.63
199	Timor-Leste	Lower-middle income	3.27
200	Vietnam	Lower-middle income	2.11

Prevalence of obesity (BMI ≥ 30kg/m²)

Source: NCD ris C estimates

NCD RisC Collaboration. Worldwide trends in underweight and obesity from 1990 to 2022: a pooled analysis of 3663 population-representative studies with 222 million children, adolescents, and adults. The Lancet. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(23)02750-2

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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