List of countries by obesity rate

Countries by obesity rate, data from WHO 2022

This is a list of countries and territories 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.

List

Prevalence of obesity (BMI >30) among adults aged 18+ (WHO, 2024).

Rank	Country	Both sexes
1	American Samoa	75.8%
2	Cook Islands	72.4%
3	Tonga	72.3%
4	Nauru	71.4%
5	Tokelau	70.0%
6	Niue	66.2%
7	Tuvalu	64.7%
8	Samoa	63.2%
9	French Polynesia	49.5%
10	The Bahamas	48.4%
11	Saint Kitts and Nevis	47.9%
12	Micronesia	46.8%
13	Kiribati	45.3%
14	Belize	43.2%
15	Egypt	42.8%
16	Qatar	42.4%
17	Palau	42.1%
18	United States	41.8%
19	Kuwait	41.3%
20	Marshall Islands	41.2%
21	Chile	41.1%
22	Georgia	40.1%
23	Barbados	39.6%
24	Fiji	39.3%
25	Saudi Arabia	39.2%
26	Argentina	38.1%
27	Panama	37.8%
28	Brunei	37.7%
29	Romania	37.7%
30	Mexico	37.4%
31	Hungary	36.9%
32	Iraq	36.8%
33	Croatia	36.5%
34	Uruguay	36.3%
35	Jamaica	35.7%
36	Bahrain	35.5%
37	Antigua and Barbuda	35.4%
38	Saint Lucia	35.4%
39	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	35.0%
40	Seychelles	34.9%
41	New Zealand	34.7%
42	Paraguay	34.2%
43	Nicaragua	34.0%
44	Greece	33.7%
45	Libya	33.5%
46	Costa Rica	33.4%
47	Malta	33.3%
48	Jordan	33.2%
49	Palestine	33.2%
50	Dominica	32.9%
51	Australia	32.4%
52	Trinidad and Tobago	32.0%
53	Grenada	31.9%
54	Czech Republic	31.6%
55	Lebanon	31.5%
56	El Salvador	31.4%
57	South Africa	31.3%
58	North Macedonia	31.2%
59	Brazil	30.9%
60	Honduras	30.8%
61	Suriname	30.8%
62	Dominican Republic	30.7%
63	Ireland	30.6%
64	Uzbekistan	30.6%
65	Turkey	30.5%
66	Slovakia	30.3%
67	United Arab Emirates	30.3%
68	Syria	29.9%
69	Guyana	29.8%
70	Oman	29.4%
71	Azerbaijan	29.3%
72	Greenland	29.3%
73	United Kingdom	29.2%
74	Peru	29.1%
75	Bolivia	28.8%
76	Ecuador	28.7%
77	Armenia	28.6%
78	Latvia	27.9%
79	Ukraine	27.8%
80	Tunisia	27.7%
81	Papua New Guinea	27.6%
82	Albania	27.3%
83	Canada	27.1%
84	Eswatini	27.1%
85	Moldova	27.0%
86	Guatemala	26.7%
87	Finland	26.2%
88	Belarus	26.1%
89	Bosnia and Herzegovina	26.1%
90	Lithuania	26.1%
91	Poland	25.9%
92	Iran	25.7%
93	Serbia	25.6%
94	Mongolia	25.5%
95	Colombia	25.3%
96	Cuba	25.0%
97	Estonia	25.0%
98	Germany	24.5%
99	Algeria	24.3%
100	Bulgaria	24.0%
101	Cyprus	23.7%
102	Malaysia	23.6%
103	Iceland	23.5%
104	Pakistan	23.5%
105	Israel	23.3%
106	Portugal	23.0%
107	Venezuela	23.0%
108	Belgium	22.9%
109	Slovenia	22.8%
110	Kazakhstan	22.4%
111	Mauritania	22.1%
112	Morocco	22.0%
113	Gabon	21.8%
114	Vanuatu	21.6%
115	Kyrgyzstan	21.5%
116	Russia	21.2%
117	Turkmenistan	21.2%
118	Mauritius	21.1%
119	Tajikistan	21.0%
120	Luxembourg	20.9%
121	Solomon Islands	20.9%
122	Norway	20.7%
123	Montenegro	20.6%
124	Lesotho	20.2%
125	Andorra	19.5%
126	Spain	18.9%
127	Afghanistan	18.8%
128	Equatorial Guinea	18.8%
129	Sweden	18.7%
130	Austria	18.3%
131	Botswana	18.1%
132	Maldives	18.1%
133	Italy	17.9%
134	Netherlands	16.9%
135	Singapore	16.8%
136	Liberia	16.7%
137	Namibia	16.7%
138	Cape Verde	16.5%
139	São Tomé and Príncipe	16.3%
140	Comoros	16.1%
141	Sudan	16.1%
142	Thailand	15.5%
143	Denmark	15.2%
144	Cameroon	14.6%
145	Ghana	13.8%
146	Zimbabwe	13.1%
147	Bhutan	13.0%
148	Somalia	13.0%
149	Switzerland	12.9%
150	France	12.5%
151	Togo	12.2%
152	Nigeria	12.1%
153	North Korea	12.1%
154	Indonesia	12.0%
155	Ivory Coast	12.0%
156	Angola	11.8%
157	Mali	11.6%
158	Yemen	11.6%
159	Republic of the Congo	11.5%
160	Guinea-Bissau	11.4%
161	Djibouti	11.2%
162	The Gambia	11.2%
163	Sri Lanka	11.2%
164	Benin	10.9%
165	Haiti	10.7%
166	Tanzania	10.5%
167	Kenya	10.4%
168	Senegal	10.3%
169	Zambia	10.1%
170	Philippines	9.7%
171	Guinea	9.4%
172	Mozambique	9.4%
173	China	9.1%
174	Laos	9.0%
175	Central African Republic	8.9%
176	Myanmar	8.3%
177	South Sudan	8.2%
178	Uganda	8.2%
179	India	8.0%
180	Nepal	7.7%
181	South Korea	7.5%
182	Sierra Leone	7.3%
183	Burkina Faso	7.0%
184	Malawi	6.7%
185	Chad	6.3%
186	Niger	6.0%
187	DR Congo	5.9%
188	Bangladesh	5.7%
189	Japan	5.2%
190	Rwanda	5.2%
191	Cambodia	4.9%
192	Burundi	4.7%
193	Eritrea	3.7%
194	Madagascar	4.1%
195	East Timor	3.3%
196	Ethiopia	2.5%
197	Vietnam	2.5%

See also

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