Ranking (% obesity by country)

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