Ranking (% obesity by country)
# | Country | % obesity |
---|---|---|
1 | Niue | 42.86 |
2 | Cook Islands | 40.91 |
3 | Nauru | 39.66 |
4 | Tokelau | 37.95 |
5 | Chile | 32.86 |
6 | American Samoa | 32.53 |
7 | Tuvalu | 31.94 |
8 | Palau | 31.70 |
9 | Tonga | 31.30 |
10 | Qatar | 29.28 |
11 | French Polynesia | 28.77 |
12 | Brunei Darussalam | 24.83 |
13 | Saint Kitts and Nevis | 24.62 |
14 | United Arab Emirates | 23.95 |
15 | Antigua and Barbuda | 23.76 |
16 | Kuwait | 23.37 |
17 | Trinidad and Tobago | 23.28 |
18 | Samoa | 23.24 |
19 | Kiribati | 23.07 |
20 | Barbados | 22.94 |
21 | Bahamas | 22.45 |
22 | Oman | 22.16 |
23 | Singapore | 22.00 |
24 | Jordan | 21.95 |
25 | Belize | 21.82 |
26 | United States | 21.66 |
27 | Lebanon | 21.63 |
28 | Saudi Arabia | 21.58 |
29 | Argentina | 21.57 |
30 | Bahrain | 21.57 |
31 | Federated States of Micronesia | 21.46 |
32 | Suriname | 20.87 |
33 | Marshall Islands | 20.55 |
34 | Mexico | 20.29 |
35 | Saint Lucia | 20.04 |
36 | Puerto Rico | 19.95 |
37 | Bermuda | 19.89 |
38 | South Korea | 19.89 |
39 | Haiti | 19.80 |
40 | Uruguay | 19.64 |
41 | Grenada | 19.59 |
42 | Peru | 19.25 |
43 | Papua New Guinea | 18.95 |
44 | Bolivia | 18.94 |
45 | Malaysia | 18.32 |
46 | Cuba | 18.28 |
47 | New Zealand | 18.24 |
48 | Seychelles | 17.71 |
49 | Egypt | 17.54 |
50 | Syrian Arab Republic | 17.52 |
51 | Dominica | 17.43 |
52 | Hungary | 17.35 |
53 | Australia | 17.22 |
54 | Brazil | 17.07 |
55 | Vanuatu | 16.99 |
56 | Cyprus | 16.76 |
57 | Paraguay | 16.29 |
58 | Venezuela | 16.27 |
59 | Libya | 16.24 |
60 | Dominican Republic | 16.08 |
61 | Fiji | 16.03 |
62 | Saint Vincent and the Grenadines | 15.89 |
63 | Ecuador | 15.86 |
64 | Thailand | 15.63 |
65 | Palestine | 15.58 |
66 | Maldives | 15.53 |
67 | Mauritius | 15.50 |
68 | Iraq | 15.36 |
69 | Iran | 15.29 |
70 | China | 15.21 |
71 | Finland | 15.18 |
72 | Algeria | 14.96 |
73 | Taiwan | 14.71 |
74 | Nicaragua | 14.59 |
75 | Bosnia and Herzegovina | 14.56 |
76 | Honduras | 14.52 |
77 | Serbia | 14.36 |
78 | Costa Rica | 14.33 |
79 | Malta | 14.28 |
80 | Greece | 14.24 |
81 | Panama | 14.07 |
82 | Bulgaria | 14.05 |
83 | Jamaica | 13.63 |
84 | North Macedonia | 13.51 |
85 | Andorra | 13.40 |
86 | Georgia | 13.18 |
87 | Estonia | 13.08 |
88 | Slovenia | 12.86 |
89 | Liberia | 12.70 |
90 | Austria | 12.63 |
91 | United Kingdom | 12.38 |
92 | Yemen | 12.36 |
93 | Solomon Islands | 12.35 |
94 | Canada | 12.29 |
95 | Sweden | 12.29 |
96 | Italy | 12.07 |
97 | Spain | 12.04 |
98 | Montenegro | 11.98 |
99 | Guyana | 11.70 |
100 | El Salvador | 11.55 |
101 | North Korea | 11.53 |
102 | Tunisia | 11.32 |
103 | Croatia | 11.30 |
104 | Indonesia | 11.26 |
105 | Turkey | 11.26 |
106 | Romania | 11.21 |
107 | Armenia | 11.15 |
108 | Slovakia | 11.13 |
109 | Israel | 10.67 |
110 | Myanmar | 10.62 |
111 | Germany | 10.41 |
112 | Pakistan | 10.17 |
113 | Iceland | 10.05 |
114 | Albania | 9.93 |
115 | Belarus | 9.71 |
116 | Colombia | 9.29 |
117 | Portugal | 9.27 |
118 | Ireland | 9.06 |
119 | Laos | 8.91 |
120 | Cambodia | 8.86 |
121 | Poland | 8.71 |
122 | Luxembourg | 8.63 |
123 | Sudan | 8.60 |
124 | Vietnam | 8.36 |
125 | Mongolia | 8.32 |
126 | Guatemala | 8.01 |
127 | Latvia | 7.92 |
128 | Azerbaijan | 7.91 |
129 | Belgium | 7.91 |
130 | Russian Federation | 7.91 |
131 | Afghanistan | 7.82 |
132 | Ghana | 7.78 |
133 | Philippines | 7.51 |
134 | Norway | 7.49 |
135 | Switzerland | 7.43 |
136 | Czechia | 7.42 |
137 | Denmark | 7.41 |
138 | Lithuania | 7.26 |
139 | Sri Lanka | 7.26 |
140 | Uganda | 7.06 |
141 | Kazakhstan | 6.77 |
142 | Benin | 6.63 |
143 | Uzbekistan | 6.53 |
144 | Japan | 6.28 |
145 | Ukraine | 6.24 |
146 | Cote d'Ivoire | 6.05 |
147 | Eswatini | 5.91 |
148 | Botswana | 5.77 |
149 | Mauritania | 5.67 |
150 | Niger | 5.62 |
151 | Namibia | 5.57 |
152 | Central African Republic | 5.51 |
153 | Equatorial Guinea | 5.48 |
154 | South Sudan | 5.45 |
155 | Netherlands | 5.41 |
156 | Morocco | 5.39 |
157 | Angola | 5.33 |
158 | Bhutan | 5.30 |
159 | Gabon | 5.27 |
160 | South Africa | 5.13 |
161 | Mali | 5.01 |
162 | Democratic Republic of Congo | 4.92 |
163 | Moldova | 4.91 |
164 | Gambia | 4.80 |
165 | Sao Tome and Principe | 4.77 |
166 | Chad | 4.71 |
167 | Guinea-Bissau | 4.65 |
168 | Zambia | 4.57 |
169 | France | 4.39 |
170 | Turkmenistan | 4.23 |
171 | Greenland | 4.11 |
172 | Congo | 4.05 |
173 | Nigeria | 3.90 |
174 | India | 3.85 |
175 | Cameroon | 3.72 |
176 | Comoros | 3.57 |
177 | Somalia | 3.56 |
178 | Burundi | 3.54 |
179 | Madagascar | 3.54 |
180 | Djibouti | 3.53 |
181 | Guinea | 3.52 |
182 | Eritrea | 3.19 |
183 | Togo | 2.98 |
184 | Cabo Verde | 2.92 |
185 | Lesotho | 2.87 |
186 | Kyrgyzstan | 2.60 |
187 | Senegal | 2.60 |
188 | Zimbabwe | 2.21 |
189 | Malawi | 2.03 |
190 | Kenya | 2.00 |
191 | Ethiopia | 1.71 |
192 | Sierra Leone | 1.69 |
193 | Tanzania | 1.68 |
194 | Bangladesh | 1.58 |
195 | Mozambique | 1.53 |
196 | Tajikistan | 1.48 |
197 | Rwanda | 1.45 |
198 | Nepal | 1.24 |
199 | Timor-Leste | 0.94 |
200 | Burkina Faso | 0.93 |
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