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How common is obesity?

Adult obesity, 195 countries & territories. Share of adults with a body-mass index of 30 or more (crude estimate, adults 18+, WHO Global Health Observatory).

lowest≥ 9.9%≥ 15.8%≥ 21.6%≥ 26.6%≥ 31.1%≥ 36.9% no data
Source: World Health Organization – Global Health… via Our World in Data· 2024

Dots sit on a scale from the lowest (2.5%) to the highest value (72.3%).

The ranking

  1. 1 Tonga 72.3% 2024
  2. 2 Nauru 71.4% 2024
  3. 3 Tuvalu 64.7% 2024
  4. 4 Samoa 63.2% 2024
  5. 6 Bahamas 48.4% 2024
  6. 8 Micronesia 46.8% 2024
  7. 9 Kiribati 45.3% 2024
  8. 10 Belize 43.2% 2024
  9. 11 Egypt 42.8% 2024
  10. 12 Qatar 42.4% 2024
  11. 13 Palau 42.1% 2024
  12. 15 United States 41.8% 2024
  13. 16 Kuwait 41.3% 2024
  14. 17 Marshall Islands 41.2% 2024
  15. 18 Chile 41.1% 2024
  16. 19 Georgia 40.1% 2024
  17. 20 Barbados 39.6% 2024
  18. 21 Fiji 39.3% 2024
  19. 22 Saudi Arabia 39.2% 2024
  20. 23 Argentina 38.1% 2024
  21. 24 Panama 37.8% 2024
  22. 25 Brunei 37.7% 2024
  23. 26 Romania 37.7% 2024
  24. 27 Mexico 37.4% 2024
  25. 28 Hungary 36.9% 2024
  26. 29 Iraq 36.8% 2024
  27. 30 Croatia 36.5% 2024
  28. 31 Uruguay 36.3% 2024
  29. 32 Jamaica 35.7% 2024
  30. 33 Bahrain 35.5% 2024
  31. 34 Antigua and Barbuda 35.4% 2024
  32. 35 Saint Lucia 35.4% 2024
  33. 37 Seychelles 34.9% 2024
  34. 39 New Zealand 34.7% 2024
  35. 40 Paraguay 34.2% 2024
  36. 41 Nicaragua 34% 2024
  37. 42 Greece 33.7% 2024
  38. 43 Libya 33.5% 2024
  39. 44 Costa Rica 33.4% 2024
  40. 45 Malta 33.3% 2024
  41. 46 Palestine 33.2% 2024
  42. 47 Jordan 33.2% 2024
  43. 48 Dominica 32.9% 2024
  44. 49 Australia 32.4% 2024