Ranking (% obesity by country)

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

Feedback