List of countries by obesity rate

Countries by obesity rate, data from WHO 2022

This is a list of countries by obesity rate, with data from the World Health Organization (WHO), as of 2024. There are 191 registered countries on this ranking. This excludes Monaco, Liechtenstein, Vatican City and San Marino.

== World Health Organization (2022 data) ==Italic text The data is from the World Health Organization. ^[1]

Rank	Country	Percentage of adults with obesity (BMI ≥ 30)
1	Tonga	70.5
2	Nauru	70.2
3	Tuvalu	63.9
4	Samoa	61.2
5	The Bahamas	47.6
6	Marshall Islands	47.3
7	Saint Kitts and Nevis	46.6
8	Kiribati	46.2
9	Micronesia	45.6
10	Kuwait	45.2
11	Qatar	43.8
12	Egypt	43.0
13	United States	42.9
14	Palau	42.2
15	Belize	41.9
16	Saudi Arabia	41.4
17	Chile	39.5
18	Georgia	38.9
19	Romania	38.2
20	Barbados	38.2
21	Iraq	37.4
22	Bahrain	37.2
23	Hungary	36.4
24	Libya	36.2
25	Mexico	36.1
26	Panama	36.1
27	Argentina	36.0
28	Croatia	35.7
29	Jordan	35.6
30	Uruguay	34.7
31	Malta	34.6
32	Turkey	34.3
33	New Zealand	34.2
34	Jamaica	34.2
35	Antigua and Barbuda	34.1
36	Saint Lucia	33.9
37	Fiji	33.8
38	Greece	33.7
39	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	33.6
40	Nicaragua	32.4
41	Brunei	32.4
42	Paraguay	32.1
43	Costa Rica	32.0
44	Australia	31.8
45	United Arab Emirates	31.5
46	Dominica	31.5
47	Poland	31.4
48	Czech Republic	31.3
49	Syria	31.2
50	Lithuania	31.1
51	Lebanon	31.1
52	Ireland	30.8
53	North Macedonia	30.6
54	Grenada	30.5
55	Slovakia	30.3
56	Seychelles	30.3
57	Oman	30.2
58	South Africa	30.0
59	El Salvador	29.9
60	Latvia	29.8
61	Ukraine	29.2
62	Trinidad and Tobago	29.2
63	Dominican Republic	29.1
64	Suriname	29.0
65	Brazil	28.8
66	United Kingdom	28.7
67	Honduras	28.5
68	Uzbekistan	28.5
69	Tunisia	28.3
70	Greenland	28.2
71	Russia	28
72	Guyana	28.0
73	Armenia	27.9
74	Bolivia	27.8
75	Azerbaijan	27.5
76	Canada	27.3
77	Eswatini	27.3
78	Peru	27.2
79	Portugal	27.1
80	Ecuador	27.0
81	Estonia	26.7
82	Albania	26.6
83	Belarus	26.6
84	Serbia	26.1
85	Moldova	25.6
86	Bosnia and Herzegovina	25.5
87	Iran	25.3
88	Guatemala	25.2
89	Cyprus	25.1
90	Kyrgyzstan	24.4
91	Algeria	24.2
92	Bulgaria	24.2
93	Germany	24.2
94	Mongolia	24.0
95	Colombia	23.9
96	Finland	23.7
97	Cuba	23.5
98	Israel	23.4
99	Venezuela	22.8
100	Iceland	22.6
101	Malaysia	22.4
102	Slovenia	22.2
103	Morocco	22.1
104	Belgium	22.0
105	Pakistan	21.8
106	Solomon Islands	21.6
107	Italy	21.6
108	Montenegro	21.1
109	Mauritania	20.8
110	Tajikistan	20.8
111	Andorra	20.5
112	Luxembourg	20.2
113	Turkmenistan	20.2
114	Papua New Guinea	20.1
115	Gabon	20.0
115	Vanuatu	19.9
117	Norway	19.8
118	Mauritius	19.5
119	Kazakhstan	19.3
120	Lesotho	19.3
121	Spain	19.2
122	Afghanistan	17.6
123	Maldives	17.6
124	Botswana	17.5
125	Equatorial Guinea	17.2
126	Austria	17.0
127	Netherlands	16.9
128	Sweden	16.4
129	Liberia	16.2
130	Comoros	15.5
131	Sudan	15.5
132	Namibia	15.3
133	Cape Verde	15.1
134	São Tomé and Príncipe	15.0
135	Thailand	14.5
136	Denmark	14.3
137	Switzerland	13.7
138	Singapore	13.5
139	Cameroon	13.4
140	The Gambia	13.2
141	Somalia	12.7
142	Zimbabwe	12.4
143	Ghana	12.1
144	Bhutan	12.0
145	Yemen	11.6
146	Indonesia	11.5
147	Tanzania	11.4
148	Kenya	11.0
149	France	10.9
150	North Korea	10.9
151	Djibouti	10.9
152	Nigeria	10.8
153	Sri Lanka	10.6
154	Ivory Coast	10.6
155	Angola	10.5
156	Haiti	10.2
157	Togo	10.4
158	Guinea-Bissau	10.1
159	Mali	10.0
160	Benin	9.9
161	Zambia	9.4
162	Mozambique	8.8
163	Philippines	8.7
164	Senegal	8.7
165	Guinea	8.3
166	China	8.2
167	South Sudan	8.0
168	Republic of the Congo	8.0
169	Laos	7.8
170	Central African Republic	7.7
171	Myanmar	7.5
172	India	7.2
173	Uganda	6.9
174	South Korea	6.7
175	Nepal	6.6
176	Sierra Leone	6.5
177	Malawi	6.4
178	Burkina Faso	6.1
179	DR Congo	5.8
180	Chad	5.7
181	Niger	5.3
182	Burundi	4.5
183	Bangladesh	5.3
184	Japan	4.9
185	Eritrea	4.2
186	Rwanda	4.6
187	Cambodia	4.4
188	Madagascar	3.8
189	Ethiopia	2.4
190	East Timor	2.2
191	Vietnam	2.1
~	Monaco	Unknown
~	San Marino	Unknown
~	Vatican City	Unknown
~	Liechtenstein	Unknown

See also

• List of countries by body mass index
• Obesity in the Pacific
• Obesity

References

1. "Prevalence of obesity among adults, BMI >= 30 (crude estimate) (%)". who.int. Retrieved 2024-09-02.