Ranking (% obesity by country)

#	Country	% obesity
1	Niue	34.32
2	Cook Islands	34.01
3	Tonga	33.87
4	Bahamas	31.75
5	Tuvalu	27.70
6	Nauru	26.84
7	Tokelau	26.80
8	American Samoa	25.71
9	Antigua and Barbuda	25.50
10	Samoa	24.37
11	French Polynesia	24.10
12	Palau	23.89
13	Puerto Rico	23.39
14	Barbados	23.34
15	Egypt	22.45
16	Chile	21.98
17	Iraq	21.98
18	Belize	21.88
19	Saint Kitts and Nevis	21.50
20	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	21.27
21	Dominica	20.02
22	United States	19.44
23	Federated States of Micronesia	19.34
24	Brunei Darussalam	19.19
25	Saint Lucia	19.00
26	Argentina	18.84
27	Bahrain	18.79
28	United Arab Emirates	18.75
29	Kuwait	18.73
30	Qatar	18.42
31	Grenada	18.38
32	Bermuda	18.32
33	Seychelles	18.29
34	Jamaica	17.51
35	New Zealand	17.28
36	Marshall Islands	17.19
37	Cuba	16.06
38	Uruguay	16.00
39	Trinidad and Tobago	15.95
40	Guyana	15.64
41	Suriname	15.46
42	Oman	15.30
43	Algeria	15.23
44	Lebanon	15.14
45	Mexico	14.97
46	Dominican Republic	14.79
47	Saudi Arabia	14.74
48	Peru	14.71
49	Kiribati	14.64
50	Malaysia	14.62
51	Libya	14.54
52	Syrian Arab Republic	14.46
53	Panama	14.40
54	Brazil	14.29
55	Australia	14.21
56	Venezuela	13.50
57	Bolivia	13.48
58	Jordan	13.30
59	Costa Rica	13.24
60	Hungary	12.43
61	Paraguay	12.29
62	Turkey	12.16
63	Colombia	12.04
64	El Salvador	11.90
65	Papua New Guinea	11.54
66	Palestine	11.40
67	Cyprus	11.11
68	Nicaragua	10.78
69	Honduras	10.64
70	Mauritania	10.31
71	Indonesia	10.30
72	United Kingdom	10.15
73	Tunisia	10.03
74	Bulgaria	10.01
75	Finland	9.94
76	Singapore	9.87
77	Maldives	9.78
78	Mauritius	9.66
79	Bosnia and Herzegovina	9.65
80	Canada	9.50
81	Malta	9.49
82	Iran	9.45
83	Ecuador	9.38
84	Spain	9.28
85	Greece	9.17
86	North Macedonia	9.17
87	Andorra	9.14
88	Azerbaijan	9.09
89	South Africa	9.08
90	Afghanistan	8.99
91	Thailand	8.93
92	Yemen	8.46
93	Fiji	8.46
94	Austria	8.42
95	Slovenia	8.39
96	Slovakia	8.22
97	Sri Lanka	8.12
98	Estonia	8.07
99	South Korea	7.92
100	Israel	7.79
101	Sweden	7.77
102	China	7.71
103	Italy	7.68
104	Vanuatu	7.67
105	Eswatini	7.65
106	Ireland	7.51
107	Georgia	7.42
108	Guatemala	7.41
109	Serbia	7.40
110	Croatia	7.25
111	Iceland	7.20
112	Armenia	7.15
113	North Korea	6.79
114	Taiwan	6.79
115	Bhutan	6.73
116	Lithuania	6.59
117	Romania	6.58
118	Pakistan	6.57
119	Germany	6.50
120	Switzerland	6.48
121	Portugal	6.38
122	Botswana	6.32
123	Lesotho	6.24
124	Luxembourg	6.17
125	Morocco	6.02
126	Uzbekistan	5.84
127	Belarus	5.71
128	Ghana	5.61
129	Poland	5.58
130	Mali	5.56
131	Cabo Verde	5.55
132	Zambia	5.54
133	Albania	5.46
134	Greenland	5.38
135	Gabon	5.36
136	Solomon Islands	5.34
137	South Sudan	5.33
138	Montenegro	5.27
139	Latvia	5.24
140	Liberia	5.23
141	Comoros	5.08
142	Belgium	5.05
143	Norway	4.79
144	Cameroon	4.58
145	Laos	4.54
146	Cote d'Ivoire	4.49
147	Central African Republic	4.39
148	Equatorial Guinea	4.38
149	Czechia	4.36
150	Philippines	4.21
151	Moldova	4.18
152	Netherlands	4.14
153	Myanmar	4.11
154	Kazakhstan	3.96
155	Russian Federation	3.95
156	Sudan	3.90
157	Vietnam	3.90
158	France	3.90
159	Benin	3.87
160	Democratic Republic of Congo	3.86
161	Gambia	3.70
162	Denmark	3.68
163	Mongolia	3.66
164	Namibia	3.52
165	Eritrea	3.51
166	Guinea-Bissau	3.43
167	Guinea	3.41
168	Nigeria	3.39
169	Djibouti	3.39
170	Somalia	3.34
171	Angola	3.28
172	Sierra Leone	3.27
173	Sao Tome and Principe	3.13
174	India	3.07
175	Kenya	2.89
176	Cambodia	2.82
177	Togo	2.80
178	Haiti	2.75
179	Nepal	2.67
180	Zimbabwe	2.58
181	Japan	2.46
182	Ukraine	2.42
183	Senegal	2.28
184	Bangladesh	2.27
185	Turkmenistan	2.22
186	Malawi	1.89
187	Chad	1.87
188	Uganda	1.83
189	Tanzania	1.75
190	Rwanda	1.71
191	Mozambique	1.68
192	Ethiopia	1.61
193	Tajikistan	1.60
194	Kyrgyzstan	1.48
195	Congo	1.45
196	Niger	1.36
197	Burkina Faso	1.20
198	Burundi	1.02
199	Timor-Leste	0.82
200	Madagascar	0.68

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

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