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Obesity - adult prevalence rate

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This entry gives the percentage of a country's population considered to be obese. Obesity is defined as an adult having a Body Mass Index (BMI) greater than or equal to 30.0. BMI is calculated by taking a person's weight in kg and dividing it by the person's squared height in meters.

Afghanistan

5.5% (2016)

Albania

21.7% (2016)

Algeria

27.4% (2016)

Andorra

25.6% (2016)

Angola

8.2% (2016)

Argentina

28.3% (2016)

Armenia

20.2% (2016)

Australia

29% (2016)

Austria

20.1% (2016)

Azerbaijan

19.9% (2016)

Bahamas, The

31.6% (2016)

Bahrain

29.8% (2016)

Bangladesh

3.6% (2016)

Barbados

23.1% (2016)

Belarus

24.5% (2016)

Belgium

22.1% (2016)

Belize

24.1% (2016)

Benin

9.6% (2016)

Bhutan

6.4% (2016)

Bolivia

20.2% (2016)

Botswana

18.9% (2016)

Brazil

22.1% (2016)

Brunei

14.1% (2016)

Bulgaria

25% (2016)

Burkina Faso

5.6% (2016)

Burma

5.8% (2016)

Burundi

5.4% (2016)

Cabo Verde

11.8% (2016)

Cambodia

3.9% (2016)

Cameroon

11.4% (2016)

Canada

29.4% (2016)

Chad

6.1% (2016)

Chile

28% (2016)

China

6.2% (2016)

Colombia

22.3% (2016)

Comoros

7.8% (2016)

Cook Islands

55.9% (2016)

Costa Rica

25.7% (2016)

Cote d'Ivoire

10.3% (2016)

Croatia

24.4% (2016)

Cuba

24.6% (2016)

Cyprus

21.8% (2016)

Czechia

26% (2016)

Denmark

19.7% (2016)

Djibouti

13.5% (2016)

Dominica

27.9% (2016)

Dominican Republic

27.6% (2016)

Ecuador

19.9% (2016)

Egypt

32% (2016)

El Salvador

24.6% (2016)

Eritrea

5% (2016)

Estonia

21.2% (2016)

Eswatini

16.5% (2016)

Ethiopia

4.5% (2016)

Fiji

30.2% (2016)

Finland

22.2% (2016)

France

21.6% (2016)

Gabon

15% (2016)

Gambia, The

10.3% (2016)

Georgia

21.7% (2016)

Germany

22.3% (2016)

Ghana

10.9% (2016)

Greece

24.9% (2016)

Grenada

21.3% (2016)

Guatemala

21.2% (2016)

Guinea

7.7% (2016)

Guinea-Bissau

9.5% (2016)

Guyana

20.2% (2016)

Haiti

22.7% (2016)

Honduras

21.4% (2016)

Hungary

26.4% (2016)

Iceland

21.9% (2016)

India

3.9% (2016)

Indonesia

6.9% (2016)

Iran

25.8% (2016)

Iraq

30.4% (2016)

Ireland

25.3% (2016)

Israel

26.1% (2016)

Italy

19.9% (2016)

Jamaica

24.7% (2016)

Japan

4.3% (2016)

Jordan

35.5% (2016)

Kazakhstan

21% (2016)

Kenya

7.1% (2016)

Kiribati

46% (2016)

Korea, North

6.8% (2016)

Korea, South

4.7% (2016)

Kuwait

37.9% (2016)

Kyrgyzstan

16.6% (2016)

Laos

5.3% (2016)

Latvia

23.6% (2016)

Lebanon

32% (2016)

Lesotho

16.6% (2016)

Liberia

9.9% (2016)

Libya

32.5% (2016)

Lithuania

26.3% (2016)

Luxembourg

22.6% (2016)

Madagascar

5.3% (2016)

Malawi

5.8% (2016)

Malaysia

15.6% (2016)

Maldives

8.6% (2016)

Mali

8.6% (2016)

Malta

28.9% (2016)

Marshall Islands

52.9% (2016)

Mauritania

12.7% (2016)

Mauritius

10.8% (2016)

Mexico

28.9% (2016)

Moldova

18.9% (2016)

Mongolia

20.6% (2016)

Montenegro

23.3% (2016)

Morocco

26.1% (2016)

note: does not include data from the former Western Sahara

Mozambique

7.2% (2016)

Namibia

17.2% (2016)

Nauru

61% (2016)

Nepal

4.1% (2016)

Netherlands

20.4% (2016)

New Zealand

30.8% (2016)

Nicaragua

23.7% (2016)

Niger

5.5% (2016)

Nigeria

8.9% (2016)

Niue

50% (2016)

North Macedonia

22.4% (2016)

Norway

23.1% (2016)

Oman

27% (2016)

Pakistan

8.6% (2016)

Palau

55.3% (2016)

Panama

22.7% (2016)

Papua New Guinea

21.3% (2016)

Paraguay

20.3% (2016)

Peru

19.7% (2016)

Philippines

6.4% (2016)

Poland

23.1% (2016)

Portugal

20.8% (2016)

Qatar

35.1% (2016)

Romania

22.5% (2016)

Russia

23.1% (2016)

Rwanda

5.8% (2016)

Saint Lucia

19.7% (2016)

Samoa

47.3% (2016)

Saudi Arabia

35.4% (2016)

Senegal

8.8% (2016)

Serbia

21.5% (2016)

Seychelles

14% (2016)

Sierra Leone

8.7% (2016)

Singapore

6.1% (2016)

Slovakia

20.5% (2016)

Slovenia

20.2% (2016)

Solomon Islands

22.5% (2016)

Somalia

8.3% (2016)

South Africa

28.3% (2016)

South Sudan

6.6% (2014)

Spain

23.8% (2016)

Sri Lanka

5.2% (2016)

Sudan

6.6% (2014)

Suriname

26.4% (2016)

Sweden

20.6% (2016)

Switzerland

19.5% (2016)

Syria

27.8% (2016)

Tajikistan

14.2% (2016)

Tanzania

8.4% (2016)

Thailand

10% (2016)

Timor-Leste

3.8% (2016)

Togo

8.4% (2016)

Tonga

48.2% (2016)

Tunisia

26.9% (2016)

Turkey (Turkiye)

32.1% (2016)

Turkmenistan

18.6% (2016)

Tuvalu

51.6% (2016)

Uganda

5.3% (2016)

Ukraine

24.1% (2016)

United Kingdom

27.8% (2016)

United States

36.2% (2016)

Uruguay

27.9% (2016)

Uzbekistan

16.6% (2016)

Vanuatu

25.2% (2016)

Venezuela

25.6% (2016)

Vietnam

2.1% (2016)

Yemen

17.1% (2016)

Zambia

8.1% (2016)

Zimbabwe

15.5% (2016)