Ranking (% obesity by country)

#	Country	World Bank income level	% obesity
1	Niue		42.75
2	Cook Islands		40.15
3	Nauru	High income	37.59
4	Tokelau		36.47
5	Palau	High income	32.17
6	Tonga	Upper-middle income	31.45
7	Chile	High income	31.03
8	Tuvalu	Upper-middle income	30.15
9	Qatar	High income	29.62
10	French Polynesia	High income	29.34
11	American Samoa	High income	28.79
12	Brunei Darussalam	High income	27.87
13	Kuwait	High income	25.13
14	United Arab Emirates	High income	24.69
15	Saint Kitts and Nevis	High income	23.84
16	United States	High income	23.36
17	Antigua and Barbuda	High income	23.08
18	Bahamas	High income	22.52
19	Lebanon	Lower-middle income	22.42
20	Saudi Arabia	High income	22.30
21	Barbados	High income	22.19
22	Bahrain	High income	22.06
23	Singapore	High income	22.02
24	Argentina	Upper-middle income	21.70
25	Samoa	Upper-middle income	21.42
26	Oman	High income	21.28
27	Mexico	Upper-middle income	20.97
28	Belize	Upper-middle income	20.87
29	South Korea	High income	19.69
30	Uruguay	High income	19.50
31	Suriname	Upper-middle income	19.49
32	Malaysia	Upper-middle income	19.27
33	Saint Lucia	Upper-middle income	19.06
34	Peru	Upper-middle income	18.96
35	Trinidad and Tobago	High income	18.96
36	New Zealand	High income	18.90
37	Federated States of Micronesia	Upper-middle income	18.73
38	Bermuda	High income	18.16
39	Brazil	Upper-middle income	18.13
40	Grenada	Upper-middle income	18.12
41	Puerto Rico	High income	18.03
42	Seychelles	High income	18.03
43	Cuba	Upper-middle income	17.95
44	Australia	High income	17.69
45	Thailand	Upper-middle income	17.30
46	Paraguay	Upper-middle income	16.90
47	China	Upper-middle income	16.87
48	Syrian Arab Republic	Low income	16.80
49	Hungary	High income	16.59
50	Cyprus	High income	16.57
51	Iran	Upper-middle income	16.56
52	Jordan	Upper-middle income	16.41
53	Dominica	Upper-middle income	16.11
54	Chinese Taipei	High income	16.03
55	Venezuela	Lower-middle income	15.95
56	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	Upper-middle income	15.85
57	Bosnia and Herzegovina	Upper-middle income	15.36
58	Maldives	Upper-middle income	15.34
59	Mauritius	Upper-middle income	15.26
60	Iraq	Upper-middle income	15.18
61	Ecuador	Upper-middle income	15.14
62	Finland	High income	15.08
63	Costa Rica	High income	15.05
64	Tunisia	Lower-middle income	14.94
65	Greece	High income	14.87
66	Malta	High income	14.85
67	Vanuatu	Lower-middle income	14.82
68	Honduras	Lower-middle income	14.66
69	Bulgaria	High income	14.63
70	Nicaragua	Lower-middle income	14.61
71	Algeria	Upper-middle income	14.53
72	Serbia	Upper-middle income	14.38
73	Dominican Republic	Upper-middle income	14.37
74	Panama	High income	14.33
75	Fiji	Upper-middle income	14.32
76	Papua New Guinea	Lower-middle income	14.29
77	Libya	Upper-middle income	14.25
78	Estonia	High income	13.95
79	Spain	High income	13.61
80	Austria	High income	13.54
81	Sweden	High income	13.51
82	Kiribati	Lower-middle income	13.43
83	Canada	High income	13.27
84	Andorra	High income	13.12
85	Poland	High income	12.97
86	Albania	Upper-middle income	12.90
87	North Macedonia	Upper-middle income	12.84
88	Slovenia	High income	12.79
89	Egypt	Lower-middle income	12.69
90	Bolivia	Lower-middle income	12.65
91	Jamaica	Upper-middle income	12.62
92	Palestine	Lower-middle income	12.59
93	Italy	High income	12.47
94	Romania	High income	12.45
95	United Kingdom	High income	12.44
96	Georgia	Upper-middle income	12.24
97	Slovakia	High income	12.24
98	Germany	High income	12.14
99	Armenia	Upper-middle income	12.05
100	Croatia	High income	11.85
101	El Salvador	Upper-middle income	11.85
102	Marshall Islands	Upper-middle income	11.67
103	Indonesia	Upper-middle income	11.64
104	Montenegro	Upper-middle income	11.56
105	North Korea	Low income	11.43
106	Iceland	High income	10.73
107	Guyana	High income	10.66
108	Myanmar	Lower-middle income	10.62
109	Luxembourg	High income	10.41
110	Haiti	Lower-middle income	10.39
111	Belarus	Upper-middle income	10.34
112	Turkey	Upper-middle income	10.24
113	Azerbaijan	Upper-middle income	10.17
114	Israel	High income	10.11
115	Vietnam	Upper-middle income	10.00
116	Colombia	Upper-middle income	9.87
117	Portugal	High income	9.77
118	Mongolia	Upper-middle income	9.65
119	Yemen	Low income	9.24
120	Pakistan	Lower-middle income	9.11
121	Russian Federation	High income	9.11
122	Ireland	High income	8.96
123	Belgium	High income	8.68
124	Laos	Lower-middle income	8.68
125	Guatemala	Upper-middle income	8.31
126	Cambodia	Lower-middle income	8.14
127	Lithuania	High income	8.05
128	Latvia	High income	7.94
129	Sudan	Low income	7.75
130	Afghanistan	Low income	7.74
131	Switzerland	High income	7.70
132	Ghana	Lower-middle income	7.66
133	Solomon Islands	Lower-middle income	7.54
134	Norway	High income	7.53
135	Czechia	High income	7.51
136	Ukraine	Upper-middle income	7.26
137	Kazakhstan	Upper-middle income	6.89
138	Denmark	High income	6.72
139	Philippines	Upper-middle income	6.72
140	Cote d'Ivoire	Lower-middle income	6.69
141	Japan	High income	6.50
142	South Africa	Upper-middle income	6.25
143	Netherlands	High income	5.47
144	Eswatini	Lower-middle income	5.28
145	Benin	Lower-middle income	5.26
146	Moldova	Upper-middle income	5.19
147	Bhutan	Lower-middle income	5.17
148	Botswana	Upper-middle income	5.11
149	Niger	Low income	5.03
150	Equatorial Guinea	Upper-middle income	5.01
151	Morocco	Lower-middle income	4.96
152	Central African Republic	Low income	4.95
153	Sao Tome and Principe	Lower-middle income	4.89
154	Turkmenistan	Upper-middle income	4.84
155	Namibia	Lower-middle income	4.81
156	Angola	Lower-middle income	4.69
157	Gabon	Upper-middle income	4.67
158	Sri Lanka	Upper-middle income	4.62
159	South Sudan	Low income	4.62
160	Mauritania	Lower-middle income	4.58
161	Greenland	High income	4.54
162	India	Lower-middle income	4.49
163	Lesotho	Lower-middle income	4.45
164	France	High income	4.31
165	Tajikistan	Lower-middle income	4.16
166	Zambia	Lower-middle income	3.96
167	Democratic Republic of Congo	Low income	3.95
168	Uzbekistan	Lower-middle income	3.68
169	Guinea-Bissau	Low income	3.64
170	Chad	Low income	3.63
171	Nigeria	Lower-middle income	3.18
172	Congo	Lower-middle income	3.16
173	Madagascar	Low income	3.06
174	Sierra Leone	Low income	3.06
175	Somalia	Low income	3.04
176	Comoros	Lower-middle income	3.03
177	Djibouti	Lower-middle income	2.98
178	Burundi	Low income	2.95
179	Togo	Lower-middle income	2.78
180	Liberia	Low income	2.76
181	Kenya	Lower-middle income	2.72
182	Cameroon	Lower-middle income	2.69
183	Mozambique	Low income	2.64
184	Cabo Verde	Upper-middle income	2.51
185	Guinea	Lower-middle income	2.51
186	Kyrgyzstan	Lower-middle income	2.37
187	Zimbabwe	Lower-middle income	2.30
188	Mali	Low income	1.89
189	Senegal	Lower-middle income	1.88
190	Eritrea	Low income	1.67
191	Ethiopia	Low income	1.66
192	Bangladesh	Lower-middle income	1.49
193	Rwanda	Low income	1.22
194	Uganda	Low income	1.22
195	Nepal	Lower-middle income	0.94
196	Burkina Faso	Low income	0.87
197	Tanzania	Lower-middle income	0.75
198	Timor-Leste	Lower-middle income	0.74
199	Malawi	Low income	0.67
200	Gambia	Low income	0.51

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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