Ranking (% obesity by country)

#	Country	World Bank income level	% obesity
1	Tonga	Upper-middle income	82.79
2	American Samoa	High income	82.21
3	Samoa	Upper-middle income	78.05
4	Tokelau		75.77
5	Cook Islands		75.21
6	Tuvalu	Upper-middle income	74.04
7	Nauru	High income	73.24
8	Niue		71.49
9	Egypt	Lower-middle income	59.04
10	Federated States of Micronesia	Upper-middle income	58.71
11	Bahamas	High income	57.76
12	Saint Kitts and Nevis	High income	56.56
13	Belize	Upper-middle income	54.69
14	Kiribati	Lower-middle income	54.65
15	Marshall Islands	Upper-middle income	53.80
16	French Polynesia	High income	51.94
17	Qatar	High income	51.74
18	Jamaica	Upper-middle income	51.62
19	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	Upper-middle income	51.35
20	Barbados	High income	51.06
21	Fiji	Upper-middle income	50.28
22	South Africa	Upper-middle income	49.14
23	Puerto Rico	High income	49.08
24	Iraq	Upper-middle income	48.99
25	Saint Lucia	Upper-middle income	48.93
26	Saudi Arabia	High income	48.47
27	Kuwait	High income	48.42
28	Dominica	Upper-middle income	47.48
29	Palestine	Lower-middle income	47.38
30	Chile	High income	47.25
31	Palau	High income	47.11
32	Seychelles	High income	46.33
33	Panama	High income	46.23
34	Grenada	Upper-middle income	45.04
35	Antigua and Barbuda	High income	44.71
36	Bermuda	High income	44.62
37	Eswatini	Lower-middle income	44.10
38	Jordan	Upper-middle income	43.53
39	Libya	Upper-middle income	43.35
40	United States	High income	43.11
41	Bahrain	High income	43.00
42	Mexico	Upper-middle income	42.57
43	Suriname	Upper-middle income	42.32
44	Nicaragua	Lower-middle income	41.76
45	Brunei Darussalam	High income	41.74
46	Syrian Arab Republic	Low income	41.59
47	Guyana	High income	41.44
48	Paraguay	Upper-middle income	41.16
49	Oman	High income	40.81
50	Costa Rica	High income	40.75
51	Honduras	Lower-middle income	40.63
52	El Salvador	Upper-middle income	40.02
53	United Arab Emirates	High income	39.81
54	Argentina	Upper-middle income	39.41
55	Uruguay	High income	38.79
56	Mauritania	Lower-middle income	38.68
57	Dominican Republic	Upper-middle income	38.35
58	Trinidad and Tobago	High income	37.92
59	Georgia	Upper-middle income	37.72
60	Lesotho	Lower-middle income	37.48
61	Bolivia	Lower-middle income	37.18
62	Turkey	Upper-middle income	36.77
63	New Zealand	High income	36.30
64	Gabon	Upper-middle income	35.39
65	Uzbekistan	Lower-middle income	35.19
66	Ecuador	Upper-middle income	35.14
67	Azerbaijan	Upper-middle income	34.95
68	Brazil	Upper-middle income	34.91
69	Peru	Upper-middle income	34.35
70	Tunisia	Lower-middle income	34.25
71	Guatemala	Upper-middle income	33.43
72	Equatorial Guinea	Upper-middle income	32.99
73	Algeria	Upper-middle income	32.94
74	Lebanon	Lower-middle income	32.82
75	Papua New Guinea	Lower-middle income	32.61
76	Greenland	High income	32.49
77	Colombia	Upper-middle income	31.75
78	Botswana	Upper-middle income	31.64
79	Iran	Upper-middle income	31.61
80	Romania	High income	31.20
81	Morocco	Lower-middle income	31.08
82	Australia	High income	30.47
83	Armenia	Upper-middle income	29.94
84	United Kingdom	High income	29.64
85	Malaysia	Upper-middle income	29.48
86	Pakistan	Lower-middle income	28.96
87	Hungary	High income	28.92
88	Tajikistan	Lower-middle income	28.87
89	Vanuatu	Lower-middle income	28.82
90	Solomon Islands	Lower-middle income	28.55
91	Malta	High income	28.31
92	Croatia	High income	28.13
93	Mongolia	Upper-middle income	28.01
94	Greece	High income	27.91
95	Ireland	High income	27.81
96	Cuba	Upper-middle income	27.16
97	Afghanistan	Low income	26.99
98	North Macedonia	Upper-middle income	26.97
99	Mauritius	Upper-middle income	26.86
100	Kyrgyzstan	Lower-middle income	26.71
101	Ukraine	Upper-middle income	26.51
102	Sao Tome and Principe	Lower-middle income	26.45
103	Venezuela	Lower-middle income	26.34
104	Comoros	Lower-middle income	26.28
105	Maldives	Upper-middle income	26.10
106	Namibia	Lower-middle income	26.10
107	Cabo Verde	Upper-middle income	25.88
108	Albania	Upper-middle income	25.87
109	Turkmenistan	Upper-middle income	25.31
110	Finland	High income	25.30
111	Canada	High income	24.89
112	Ghana	Lower-middle income	24.89
113	Somalia	Low income	24.22
114	Moldova	Upper-middle income	24.11
115	Sudan	Low income	23.87
116	Cameroon	Lower-middle income	23.26
117	Israel	High income	22.86
118	Czechia	High income	22.82
119	Liberia	Low income	22.78
120	Slovakia	High income	22.77
121	Belarus	Upper-middle income	22.74
122	Belgium	High income	22.29
123	Kazakhstan	Upper-middle income	22.19
124	Zimbabwe	Lower-middle income	22.19
125	Latvia	High income	22.14
126	Iceland	High income	21.46
127	Estonia	High income	20.82
128	Bosnia and Herzegovina	Upper-middle income	20.76
129	Togo	Lower-middle income	20.53
130	Cyprus	High income	20.49
131	Lithuania	High income	20.30
132	Thailand	Upper-middle income	19.88
133	Gambia	Low income	19.82
134	Portugal	High income	19.76
135	Nigeria	Lower-middle income	19.69
136	Germany	High income	19.62
137	Norway	High income	19.60
138	Senegal	Lower-middle income	19.21
139	Serbia	Upper-middle income	18.86
140	Russian Federation	High income	18.85
141	Angola	Lower-middle income	18.84
142	Congo	Lower-middle income	18.72
143	Cote d'Ivoire	Lower-middle income	18.36
144	Poland	High income	18.36
145	Mali	Low income	18.31
146	Luxembourg	High income	18.04
147	Bulgaria	High income	17.92
148	Guinea-Bissau	Low income	17.85
149	Zambia	Lower-middle income	17.72
150	Benin	Lower-middle income	17.55
151	Bhutan	Lower-middle income	17.50
152	Kenya	Lower-middle income	17.43
153	Djibouti	Lower-middle income	17.40
154	Haiti	Lower-middle income	17.16
155	Indonesia	Upper-middle income	17.10
156	Yemen	Low income	16.91
157	Tanzania	Lower-middle income	16.81
158	Sweden	High income	16.79
159	Andorra	High income	15.75
160	Singapore	High income	15.69
161	Netherlands	High income	15.55
162	Sri Lanka	Upper-middle income	15.43
163	Montenegro	Upper-middle income	15.31
164	Guinea	Lower-middle income	15.14
165	North Korea	Low income	15.07
166	Mozambique	Low income	15.04
167	Uganda	Low income	14.64
168	Central African Republic	Low income	14.63
169	Italy	High income	13.85
170	Slovenia	High income	13.67
171	Sierra Leone	Low income	13.66
172	Austria	High income	13.64
173	Spain	High income	13.44
174	Denmark	High income	13.43
175	Malawi	Low income	12.62
176	South Sudan	Low income	12.55
177	Laos	Lower-middle income	12.07
178	Philippines	Upper-middle income	12.01
179	France	High income	11.94
180	Burkina Faso	Low income	11.12
181	Myanmar	Lower-middle income	10.79
182	India	Lower-middle income	10.77
183	Nepal	Lower-middle income	10.73
184	Chinese Taipei	High income	9.66
185	Democratic Republic of Congo	Low income	9.50
186	Switzerland	High income	9.28
187	Niger	Low income	9.11
188	Rwanda	Low income	9.07
189	Bangladesh	Lower-middle income	8.86
190	China	Upper-middle income	8.61
191	Chad	Low income	7.52
192	Cambodia	Lower-middle income	6.39
193	Eritrea	Low income	6.07
194	South Korea	High income	6.06
195	Timor-Leste	Lower-middle income	5.71
196	Ethiopia	Low income	4.55
197	Madagascar	Low income	4.54
198	Burundi	Low income	4.50
199	Japan	High income	3.79
200	Vietnam	Upper-middle income	2.49

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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