Ranking (% obesity by country)

#	Country	% obesity
1	American Samoa	65.32
2	Nauru	64.81
3	Cook Islands	60.85
4	Palau	60.48
5	Marshall Islands	59.02
6	Tuvalu	57.85
7	French Polynesia	56.90
8	Niue	56.77
9	Samoa	56.62
10	Tonga	56.06
11	Federated States of Micronesia	53.17
12	Tokelau	52.18
13	Kiribati	51.96
14	Kuwait	47.08
15	Qatar	44.60
16	Jordan	44.60
17	Saudi Arabia	43.74
18	Bermuda	43.17
19	Egypt	42.48
20	United Arab Emirates	42.46
21	Puerto Rico	41.55
22	Libya	41.08
23	South Africa	40.99
24	Turkey	40.71
25	Palestine	40.22
26	Bahamas	39.48
27	Lebanon	38.44
28	Iraq	38.33
29	Bahrain	38.19
30	United States	38.16
31	Dominica	36.91
32	Fiji	36.50
33	Algeria	36.22
34	Syrian Arab Republic	36.09
35	Tunisia	35.62
36	Dominican Republic	35.42
37	Suriname	34.99
38	Oman	34.97
39	Jamaica	34.72
40	Mexico	33.98
41	Iran	33.47
42	Morocco	33.43
43	Belize	32.72
44	Barbados	32.58
45	New Zealand	32.58
46	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	32.27
47	Chile	32.13
48	Uruguay	31.80
49	Cuba	31.58
50	Costa Rica	31.53
51	Saint Kitts and Nevis	31.33
52	Vanuatu	31.21
53	Botswana	30.50
54	Canada	30.44
55	Grenada	30.22
56	Argentina	30.14
57	Nicaragua	30.08
58	El Salvador	30.03
59	Venezuela	29.75
60	United Kingdom	29.71
61	Malta	29.63
62	Australia	29.51
63	Lithuania	28.94
64	Panama	28.69
65	Guyana	28.19
66	Solomon Islands	28.13
67	Russian Federation	28.11
68	Saint Lucia	28.08
69	Haiti	28.07
70	Honduras	27.91
71	Lesotho	27.73
72	Colombia	27.70
73	Guatemala	27.45
74	Belarus	27.34
75	Israel	27.30
76	Eswatini	27.22
77	Trinidad and Tobago	27.10
78	Antigua and Barbuda	26.97
79	Papua New Guinea	26.79
80	Ukraine	26.72
81	Bolivia	26.56
82	Ireland	26.55
83	Czechia	26.50
84	Namibia	26.48
85	Greece	26.44
86	Brazil	26.44
87	Andorra	26.34
88	Zimbabwe	26.32
89	Latvia	26.17
90	Ecuador	25.64
91	Hungary	25.64
92	Croatia	25.57
93	Bulgaria	25.27
94	Peru	25.14
95	Georgia	24.77
96	Azerbaijan	24.55
97	Paraguay	24.39
98	Mongolia	24.22
99	Montenegro	24.10
100	Armenia	24.02
101	Spain	23.78
102	Kazakhstan	23.65
103	Norway	23.48
104	Poland	23.22
105	North Macedonia	23.00
106	Yemen	22.97
107	Serbia	22.79
108	Estonia	22.74
109	Greenland	22.72
110	Albania	22.72
111	Romania	22.55
112	Cyprus	22.52
113	Portugal	22.12
114	Moldova	22.03
115	France	21.97
116	Slovenia	21.87
117	Belgium	21.87
118	Turkmenistan	21.84
119	Luxembourg	21.57
120	Finland	21.50
121	Seychelles	21.39
122	Germany	21.33
123	Gabon	21.17
124	Netherlands	20.86
125	Slovakia	20.80
126	Italy	20.41
127	Iceland	20.24
128	Uzbekistan	19.86
129	Kyrgyzstan	19.47
130	Mauritania	19.26
131	Bosnia and Herzegovina	19.25
132	Djibouti	19.11
133	Austria	19.10
134	Sweden	18.83
135	Malaysia	18.64
136	Denmark	17.71
137	Sao Tome and Principe	17.66
138	Switzerland	17.59
139	Tajikistan	17.41
140	Ghana	17.34
141	Cameroon	17.17
142	Cabo Verde	17.03
143	Brunei Darussalam	16.43
144	Mauritius	16.35
145	Cote d'Ivoire	15.84
146	Gambia	15.46
147	Benin	14.84
148	Liberia	14.82
149	Guinea-Bissau	14.28
150	Congo	14.11
151	Sierra Leone	13.88
152	Nigeria	13.65
153	Senegal	13.50
154	Thailand	13.25
155	Tanzania	13.22
156	Equatorial Guinea	13.17
157	Togo	13.06
158	Zambia	12.99
159	Sudan	12.93
160	Mali	12.92
161	Somalia	12.82
162	Comoros	12.71
163	Angola	12.61
164	Guinea	12.01
165	Maldives	11.88
166	Pakistan	11.75
167	Kenya	11.61
168	Central African Republic	11.41
169	Mozambique	11.00
170	Hong Kong	10.74
171	Democratic Republic of Congo	10.12
172	Rwanda	9.74
173	Malawi	9.56
174	Chad	9.34
175	Indonesia	9.28
176	Niger	9.10
177	Uganda	9.00
178	Burundi	9.00
179	Bhutan	8.90
180	Taiwan	8.63
181	Burkina Faso	8.49
182	Afghanistan	8.00
183	Eritrea	7.91
184	Madagascar	7.89
185	Philippines	7.86
186	Myanmar	7.61
187	Sri Lanka	7.59
188	North Korea	7.59
189	Ethiopia	7.25
190	Laos	7.02
191	China	6.83
192	Singapore	6.63
193	Nepal	5.64
194	India	5.31
195	Bangladesh	5.19
196	Timor-Leste	5.15
197	Cambodia	5.06
198	South Korea	5.03
199	Japan	3.86
200	Vietnam	2.71

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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