Ranking (% obesity by country)

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

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