Ranking (% obesity by country)

#	Country	Income group	% obesity
1	Niue		38.62
2	Cook Islands		37.46
3	Nauru	High income	33.36
4	Tonga	Upper-middle income	32.58
5	Tokelau		32.31
6	Tuvalu	Upper-middle income	29.87
7	American Samoa	High income	29.08
8	Palau	High income	27.94
9	Chile	High income	27.38
10	Bahamas	High income	27.31
11	French Polynesia	High income	26.46
12	Qatar	High income	26.30
13	Antigua and Barbuda	High income	24.67
14	Samoa	Lower-middle income	23.79
15	Barbados	High income	23.15
16	Saint Kitts and Nevis	High income	23.01
17	United Arab Emirates	High income	22.36
18	Brunei Darussalam	High income	22.11
19	Belize	Upper-middle income	21.85
20	Puerto Rico	High income	21.77
21	Kuwait	High income	21.05
22	United States	High income	20.54
23	Bahrain	High income	20.51
24	Federated States of Micronesia	Lower-middle income	20.40
25	Argentina	Upper-middle income	20.19
26	Egypt	Lower-middle income	19.97
27	Trinidad and Tobago	High income	19.56
28	Saint Lucia	Upper-middle income	19.51
29	Oman	High income	19.47
30	Bermuda	High income	19.08
31	Grenada	Upper-middle income	18.99
32	Marshall Islands	Upper-middle income	18.91
33	Kiribati	Lower-middle income	18.75
34	Dominica	Upper-middle income	18.73
35	Saudi Arabia	High income	18.68
36	Iraq	Upper-middle income	18.67
37	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	Upper-middle income	18.53
38	Suriname	Upper-middle income	18.16
39	Lebanon	Lower-middle income	18.15
40	Seychelles	High income	17.99
41	Jordan	Lower-middle income	17.78
42	Uruguay	High income	17.76
43	New Zealand	High income	17.75
44	Mexico	Upper-middle income	17.57
45	Cuba	Upper-middle income	17.16
46	Peru	Upper-middle income	16.95
47	Malaysia	Upper-middle income	16.51
48	Singapore	High income	16.22
49	Bolivia	Lower-middle income	16.21
50	Syrian Arab Republic	Low income	15.99
51	Australia	High income	15.70
52	Brazil	Upper-middle income	15.65
53	Jamaica	Upper-middle income	15.59
54	Dominican Republic	Upper-middle income	15.44
55	Libya	Upper-middle income	15.39
56	Papua New Guinea	Lower-middle income	15.36
57	Algeria	Upper-middle income	15.09
58	Venezuela		14.87
59	Hungary	High income	14.79
60	Paraguay	Upper-middle income	14.30
61	Panama	High income	14.24
62	Cyprus	High income	13.94
63	South Korea	High income	13.89
64	Costa Rica	Upper-middle income	13.79
65	Guyana	High income	13.71
66	Palestine	Lower-middle income	13.48
67	Maldives	Upper-middle income	13.09
68	Nicaragua	Lower-middle income	12.66
69	Ecuador	Upper-middle income	12.62
70	Honduras	Lower-middle income	12.60
71	Mauritius	Upper-middle income	12.54
72	Finland	High income	12.53
73	Iran	Upper-middle income	12.39
74	Vanuatu	Lower-middle income	12.36
75	Fiji	Upper-middle income	12.26
76	Thailand	Upper-middle income	12.18
77	Bosnia and Herzegovina	Upper-middle income	12.07
78	Malta	High income	11.98
79	Bulgaria	High income	11.97
80	El Salvador	Upper-middle income	11.73
81	Turkey	Upper-middle income	11.71
82	Greece	High income	11.65
83	China	Upper-middle income	11.54
84	North Macedonia	Upper-middle income	11.33
85	Andorra	High income	11.32
86	United Kingdom	High income	11.25
87	Haiti	Lower-middle income	11.20
88	Canada	High income	10.89
89	Taiwan	High income	10.79
90	Indonesia	Upper-middle income	10.78
91	Serbia	Upper-middle income	10.74
92	Colombia	Upper-middle income	10.69
93	Tunisia	Lower-middle income	10.67
94	Slovenia	High income	10.64
95	Spain	High income	10.63
96	Austria	High income	10.50
97	Estonia	High income	10.45
98	Yemen	Low income	10.43
99	Georgia	Upper-middle income	10.12
100	Sweden	High income	10.05
101	Italy	High income	9.82
102	Slovakia	High income	9.64
103	Croatia	High income	9.22
104	Israel	High income	9.22
105	North Korea	Low income	9.14
106	Armenia	Upper-middle income	8.95
107	Solomon Islands	Lower-middle income	8.92
108	Liberia	Low income	8.91
109	Romania	High income	8.82
110	Iceland	High income	8.66
111	Montenegro	Upper-middle income	8.53
112	Azerbaijan	Upper-middle income	8.51
113	Germany	High income	8.43
114	Afghanistan	Low income	8.40
115	Pakistan	Lower-middle income	8.39
116	Ireland	High income	8.27
117	Mauritania	Lower-middle income	8.03
118	Portugal	High income	7.74
119	Guatemala	Upper-middle income	7.71
120	Sri Lanka	Lower-middle income	7.71
121	Albania	Upper-middle income	7.69
122	Belarus	Upper-middle income	7.55
123	Myanmar	Lower-middle income	7.35
124	Luxembourg	High income	7.32
125	South Africa	Upper-middle income	7.16
126	Poland	High income	7.09
127	Switzerland	High income	6.95
128	Lithuania	High income	6.93
129	Eswatini	Lower-middle income	6.79
130	Ghana	Lower-middle income	6.69
131	Laos	Lower-middle income	6.69
132	Latvia	High income	6.59
133	Belgium	High income	6.46
134	Sudan	Low income	6.25
135	Uzbekistan	Lower-middle income	6.19
136	Norway	High income	6.15
137	Vietnam	Lower-middle income	6.10
138	Botswana	Upper-middle income	6.05
139	Bhutan	Lower-middle income	5.97
140	Mongolia	Upper-middle income	5.97
141	Philippines	Lower-middle income	5.88
142	Czechia	High income	5.87
143	Cambodia	Lower-middle income	5.81
144	Russian Federation	High income	5.79
145	Morocco	Lower-middle income	5.70
146	Denmark	High income	5.54
147	South Sudan	Low income	5.38
148	Kazakhstan	Upper-middle income	5.32
149	Gabon	Upper-middle income	5.31
150	Cote d'Ivoire	Lower-middle income	5.28
151	Mali	Low income	5.28
152	Benin	Lower-middle income	5.25
153	Zambia	Lower-middle income	5.06
154	Equatorial Guinea	Upper-middle income	4.96
155	Central African Republic	Low income	4.95
156	Netherlands	High income	4.77
157	Greenland	High income	4.72
158	Lesotho	Lower-middle income	4.61
159	Moldova	Upper-middle income	4.53
160	Namibia	Upper-middle income	4.51
161	Uganda	Low income	4.42
162	Democratic Republic of Congo	Low income	4.38
163	Comoros	Lower-middle income	4.32
164	Japan	High income	4.32
165	Angola	Lower-middle income	4.29
166	Gambia	Low income	4.25
167	Cabo Verde	Lower-middle income	4.24
168	Ukraine	Upper-middle income	4.17
169	Cameroon	Lower-middle income	4.16
170	France	High income	4.14
171	Guinea-Bissau	Low income	4.03
172	Sao Tome and Principe	Lower-middle income	3.95
173	Nigeria	Lower-middle income	3.65
174	Niger	Low income	3.52
175	India	Lower-middle income	3.48
176	Guinea	Lower-middle income	3.47
177	Djibouti	Lower-middle income	3.46
178	Somalia	Low income	3.45
179	Eritrea	Low income	3.35
180	Chad	Low income	3.29
181	Turkmenistan	Upper-middle income	3.22
182	Togo	Low income	2.89
183	Congo	Lower-middle income	2.75
184	Sierra Leone	Low income	2.48
185	Kenya	Lower-middle income	2.45
186	Senegal	Lower-middle income	2.44
187	Zimbabwe	Lower-middle income	2.41
188	Burundi	Low income	2.27
189	Kyrgyzstan	Lower-middle income	2.17
190	Madagascar	Low income	2.11
191	Nepal	Lower-middle income	1.98
192	Malawi	Low income	1.96
193	Bangladesh	Lower-middle income	1.92
194	Tanzania	Lower-middle income	1.72
195	Ethiopia	Low income	1.66
196	Mozambique	Low income	1.61
197	Rwanda	Low income	1.58
198	Tajikistan	Lower-middle income	1.54
199	Burkina Faso	Low income	1.06
200	Timor-Leste	Lower-middle income	0.88

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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