Ranking (% obesity by country)

#	Country	World Bank income level	% obesity
1	Niue		38.08
2	Cook Islands		35.95
3	Tonga	Upper-middle income	32.49
4	Tokelau		31.57
5	Nauru	High income	30.75
6	Tuvalu	Upper-middle income	28.52
7	Palau	High income	28.50
8	Chile	High income	28.48
9	Bahamas	High income	27.11
10	American Samoa	High income	26.99
11	French Polynesia	High income	25.45
12	Samoa	Upper-middle income	25.22
13	Brunei Darussalam	High income	24.47
14	Antigua and Barbuda	High income	24.44
15	Qatar	High income	23.59
16	Barbados	High income	22.91
17	Saint Kitts and Nevis	High income	22.69
18	Kuwait	High income	21.80
19	United States	High income	21.79
20	Argentina	Upper-middle income	21.66
21	Belize	Upper-middle income	21.51
22	United Arab Emirates	High income	21.26
23	Puerto Rico	High income	20.56
24	Bahrain	High income	20.04
25	Saint Lucia	Upper-middle income	19.36
26	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	Upper-middle income	18.80
27	Federated States of Micronesia	Upper-middle income	18.71
28	Grenada	Upper-middle income	18.40
29	Bermuda	High income	18.36
30	Saudi Arabia	High income	18.36
31	Mexico	Upper-middle income	18.32
32	New Zealand	High income	18.31
33	Dominica	Upper-middle income	18.21
34	Seychelles	High income	18.00
35	Uruguay	High income	17.94
36	Iraq	Upper-middle income	17.92
37	Oman	High income	17.71
38	Malaysia	Upper-middle income	17.68
39	Suriname	Upper-middle income	17.68
40	Brazil	Upper-middle income	17.56
41	Lebanon	Lower-middle income	17.45
42	Trinidad and Tobago	High income	17.45
43	Cuba	Upper-middle income	17.43
44	Peru	Upper-middle income	16.93
45	Paraguay	Upper-middle income	16.48
46	Australia	High income	16.43
47	Singapore	High income	16.25
48	Syrian Arab Republic	Low income	15.17
49	Venezuela	Lower-middle income	15.08
50	Dominican Republic	Upper-middle income	14.82
51	Panama	High income	14.72
52	Costa Rica	High income	14.53
53	Algeria	Upper-middle income	14.33
54	Jamaica	Upper-middle income	14.26
55	Hungary	High income	14.22
56	Jordan	Upper-middle income	14.10
57	Libya	Upper-middle income	13.96
58	Iran	Upper-middle income	13.83
59	Thailand	Upper-middle income	13.81
60	Cyprus	High income	13.49
61	Egypt	Lower-middle income	13.49
62	South Korea	High income	13.36
63	Kiribati	Lower-middle income	13.20
64	Tunisia	Lower-middle income	13.14
65	Nicaragua	Lower-middle income	13.11
66	Ecuador	Upper-middle income	13.01
67	Guyana	High income	12.99
68	Fiji	Upper-middle income	12.82
69	Malta	High income	12.78
70	Finland	High income	12.76
71	Honduras	Lower-middle income	12.74
72	Maldives	Upper-middle income	12.72
73	China	Upper-middle income	12.70
74	Bulgaria	High income	12.49
75	Mauritius	Upper-middle income	12.49
76	El Salvador	Upper-middle income	12.45
77	Bosnia and Herzegovina	Upper-middle income	12.28
78	Greece	High income	12.19
79	Papua New Guinea	Lower-middle income	12.08
80	Spain	High income	11.80
81	Marshall Islands	Upper-middle income	11.74
82	Canada	High income	11.56
83	Bolivia	Lower-middle income	11.50
84	Colombia	Upper-middle income	11.47
85	Vanuatu	Lower-middle income	11.47
86	Estonia	High income	11.41
87	Chinese Taipei	High income	11.38
88	United Kingdom	High income	11.29
89	Sweden	High income	11.25
90	Palestine	Lower-middle income	11.22
91	Andorra	High income	11.18
92	North Macedonia	Upper-middle income	11.01
93	Austria	High income	10.78
94	Slovenia	High income	10.65
95	Serbia	Upper-middle income	10.63
96	Indonesia	Upper-middle income	10.37
97	Italy	High income	10.29
98	Albania	Upper-middle income	10.16
99	Slovakia	High income	10.05
100	Armenia	Upper-middle income	9.98
101	Georgia	Upper-middle income	9.90
102	Romania	High income	9.90
103	Poland	High income	9.81
104	Azerbaijan	Upper-middle income	9.75
105	Turkey	Upper-middle income	9.64
106	Croatia	High income	9.62
107	Germany	High income	9.57
108	North Korea	Low income	9.46
109	Iceland	High income	9.20
110	Luxembourg	High income	9.13
111	Israel	High income	8.86
112	Montenegro	Upper-middle income	8.67
113	Portugal	High income	8.49
114	Yemen	Low income	8.49
115	Belarus	Upper-middle income	8.47
116	Afghanistan	Low income	8.22
117	Myanmar	Lower-middle income	8.01
118	Guatemala	Upper-middle income	8.00
119	Pakistan	Lower-middle income	7.98
120	Ireland	High income	7.94
121	South Africa	Upper-middle income	7.85
122	Mongolia	Upper-middle income	7.62
123	Russian Federation	High income	7.40
124	Lithuania	High income	7.29
125	Belgium	High income	7.28
126	Vietnam	Upper-middle income	7.27
127	Laos	Lower-middle income	7.06
128	Switzerland	High income	6.96
129	Haiti	Lower-middle income	6.94
130	Latvia	High income	6.84
131	Mauritania	Lower-middle income	6.58
132	Solomon Islands	Lower-middle income	6.35
133	Norway	High income	6.27
134	Ghana	Lower-middle income	6.05
135	Eswatini	Lower-middle income	6.05
136	Czechia	High income	6.02
137	Bhutan	Lower-middle income	5.83
138	Cambodia	Lower-middle income	5.83
139	Sudan	Low income	5.78
140	Kazakhstan	Upper-middle income	5.73
141	Botswana	Upper-middle income	5.59
142	Philippines	Upper-middle income	5.59
143	Denmark	High income	5.41
144	Ukraine	Upper-middle income	5.28
145	Gabon	Upper-middle income	5.16
146	Greenland	High income	5.16
147	Cote d'Ivoire	Lower-middle income	5.07
148	Morocco	Lower-middle income	5.02
149	Netherlands	High income	4.94
150	Moldova	Upper-middle income	4.92
151	Equatorial Guinea	Upper-middle income	4.80
152	South Sudan	Low income	4.78
153	Japan	High income	4.76
154	Central African Republic	Low income	4.75
155	Lesotho	Lower-middle income	4.66
156	Zambia	Lower-middle income	4.53
157	Namibia	Lower-middle income	4.36
158	Benin	Lower-middle income	4.33
159	Sri Lanka	Upper-middle income	4.24
160	France	High income	4.19
161	Angola	Lower-middle income	4.13
162	Kenya	Lower-middle income	4.12
163	Democratic Republic of Congo	Low income	4.08
164	India	Lower-middle income	4.02
165	Comoros	Lower-middle income	4.01
166	Sao Tome and Principe	Lower-middle income	3.83
167	Turkmenistan	Upper-middle income	3.78
168	Cabo Verde	Upper-middle income	3.52
169	Guinea-Bissau	Low income	3.38
170	Tajikistan	Lower-middle income	3.35
171	Cameroon	Lower-middle income	3.34
172	Sierra Leone	Low income	3.18
173	Niger	Low income	3.14
174	Somalia	Low income	3.10
175	Nigeria	Lower-middle income	3.09
176	Djibouti	Lower-middle income	3.07
177	Uzbekistan	Lower-middle income	3.03
178	Mozambique	Low income	2.83
179	Guinea	Lower-middle income	2.71
180	Togo	Lower-middle income	2.59
181	Chad	Low income	2.58
182	Zimbabwe	Lower-middle income	2.58
183	Congo	Lower-middle income	2.47
184	Senegal	Lower-middle income	2.38
185	Kyrgyzstan	Lower-middle income	2.36
186	Bangladesh	Lower-middle income	2.22
187	Liberia	Low income	2.06
188	Burundi	Low income	2.01
189	Ethiopia	Low income	1.95
190	Madagascar	Low income	1.89
191	Mali	Low income	1.78
192	Eritrea	Low income	1.67
193	Rwanda	Low income	1.62
194	Nepal	Lower-middle income	1.57
195	Tanzania	Lower-middle income	1.30
196	Uganda	Low income	1.10
197	Gambia	Low income	1.07
198	Burkina Faso	Low income	0.97
199	Malawi	Low income	0.85
200	Timor-Leste	Lower-middle income	0.84

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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