List of countries by proportion of obese people

The following list sorts countries according to the proportion of their adult population with obesity . Obesity is present from a body mass index of 30. All data come from the World Health Organization . The percentage and the total number of overweight people has risen sharply worldwide in the last few decades. In 2014, 1.9 billion people worldwide were overweight (BMI over 25) and around 600 million people were severely overweight (BMI over 30).

methodology

The body mass index is calculated as follows:

${\displaystyle {\mathit {BMI}}={\frac {m}{l^{2}}}}$

where the body mass (in kilograms) and the body height (in meters). A BMI value over 25 is considered overweight, a value over 30 is considered obesity or severely overweight. It is criticized that this calculation method does not include muscle mass and the percentage of body fat. ${\displaystyle m}$ ${\displaystyle l}$

List of countries / territories

The source is the WHO (as of 2014), the countries are sorted according to the proportion of the adult population with a BMI over 30.

Proportion of obese (very overweight) people in%

rank	country	Proportion of obese (very overweight) people in% (total)
1	Cook Islands	50.8%
2	Palau	47.6%
3	Nauru	45.6%
4th	Samoa	43.4%
5	Tonga	43.3%
6th	Marshall Islands	42.8%
7th	Qatar	42.3%
8th	Tuvalu	40.3%
9	Kuwait	39.7%
11	Micronesia	37.2%
11	United Arab Emirates	37.2%
13	Fiji	36.4%
14th	Bahamas	36.2%
15th	Vanuatu	35.4%
16	Bahrain	35.1%
17th	Saudi Arabia	34.7%
18th	United States	33.7%
19th	Libya	33.1%
20th	Lebanon	31.9%
21st	Barbados	31.3%
22nd	Trinidad and Tobago	31.1%
23	Antigua and Barbuda	30.9%
23	Oman	30.9%
25th	Jordan	30.5%
26th	Andorra	29.5%
26th	Turkey	29.5%
28	New Zealand	29.2%
29	Egypt	28.9%
30th	Australia	28.6%
31	St. Kitts and Nevis	28.3%
32	Mexico	28.1%
32	United Kingdom	28.1%
34	Canada	28.0%
35	Papua New Guinea	27.9%
36	Chile	27.8%
37	Solomon Islands	27.7%
38	Jamaica	27.2%
39	Tunisia	27.1%
40	St. Lucia	26.9%
41	Panama	26.8%
41	South Africa	26.8%
41	Czech Republic	26.8%
44	Uruguay	26.7%
45	Malta	26.6%
46	Argentina	26.3%
46	Seychelles	26.3%
48	Grenada	26.2%
49	Iran	26.1%
49	Suriname	26.1%
51	Lithuania	25.9%
52	Dominica	25.8%
53	Slovakia	25.7%
54	Ireland	25.6%
55	Israel	25.3%
56	Cuba	25.2%
56	Poland	25.2%
58	Slovenia	25.1%
59	Algeria	24.8%
59	Venezuela	24.8%
61	Costa Rica	24.3%
61	St. Vincent and the Grenadines	24.3%
63	Russia	24.1%
64	Hungary	24.0%
65	Dominican Republic	23.9%
65	France	23.9%
67	Iraq	23.8%
68	Latvia	23.7%
68	Spain	23.7%
70	Syria	23.5%
71	Kazakhstan	23.4%
71	Belarus	23.4%
73	Croatia	23.3%
74	Bulgaria	23.2%
75	Luxembourg	23.1%
75	Norway	23.1%
77	Greece	22.9%
77	Guyana	22.9%
79	Iceland	22.8%
80	Estonia	22.6%
81	Azerbaijan	22.5%
81	Belize	22.5%
83	Botswana	22.4%
84	Morocco	22.3%
85	El Salvador	21.8%
86	Romania	21.7%
87	Peru	21.1%
88	Italy	21.0%
88	Colombia	21.0%
90	Georgia	20.8%
91	Finland	20.6%
92	Sweden	20.5%
93	Belgium	20.2%
94	Germany	20.1%
94	Portugal	20.1%
94	Turkmenistan	20.1%
94	Ukraine	20.1%
98	Brazil	20.0%
98	Montenegro	20.0%
100	Netherlands	19.8%
101	North Macedonia	19.6%
102	Armenia	19.5%
102	Serbia	19.5%
104	Switzerland	19.4%
105	Denmark	19.3%
106	Namibia	18.9%
107	Ecuador	18.7%
108	Guatemala	18.6%
109	Austria	18.4%
110	Honduras	18.2%
111	Brunei	18.1%
112	Bosnia and Herzegovina	17.9%
112	Mauritius	17.9%
114	Swaziland	17.7%
115	Albania	17.6%
115	Gabon	17.6%
117	Equatorial Guinea	17.5%
118	Yemen	17.2%
119	Bolivia	17.1%
119	Nicaragua	17.1%
121	Mongolia	16.7%
122	Paraguay	16.3%
123	Uzbekistan	15.5%
124	Moldova	14.9%
125	Kyrgyzstan	14.4%
126	Lesotho	14.2%
127	Tajikistan	13.6%
128	Malaysia	13.3%
	World average	13.0%
129	Cape Verde	13.0%
130	Sao Tome and Principe	12.3%
131	Ghana	12.2%
132	Haiti	11.9%
133	Cameroon	11.4%
134	Republic of the Congo	11.0%
134	Nigeria	11.0%
136	Gambia	10.9%
137	Zimbabwe	10.5%
138	Angola	10.2%
139	Senegal	9.8%
140	Mauritania	9.7%
141	Djibouti	9.6%
142	Benin	9.3%
143	Ivory Coast	9.2%
144	Zambia	8.9%
145	Thailand	8.5%
146	Chad	8.1%
147	Maldives	7.9%
148	Sierra Leone	7.6%
149	Sudan	7.5%
149	Togo	7.5%
151	Guinea-Bissau	7.2%
152	Tanzania	7.1%
153	Kenya	7.0%
154	People's Republic of China	6.9%
155	Guinea	6.8%
155	Mali	6.8%
157	Bhutan	6.7%
158	Comoros	6.6%
158	Liberia	6.6%
160	Sri Lanka	6.5%
161	Singapore	6.3%
162	South Korea	5.8%
163	Indonesia	5.7%
164	Madagascar	5.4%
164	Pakistan	5.4%
166	Malawi	5.3%
166	Mozambique	5.3%
168	Philippines	5.1%
168	Central African Republic	5.1%
170	India	4.9%
170	Uganda	4.9%
171	Somalia	4.6%
172	Democratic Republic of Congo	4.4%
173	Niger	4.3%
174	Eritrea	4.1%
175	Ethiopia	4.0%
175	Rwanda	4.0%
177	Bangladesh	3.6%
177	Vietnam	3.6%
179	Laos	3.5%
180	Japan	3.3%
180	Nepal	3.3%
182	Cambodia	3.2%
183	Afghanistan	2.9%
183	Myanmar	2.9%
185	Burundi	2.6%
186	North Korea	2.4%
187	East Timor	2.2%

See also

• List of countries by proportion of malnourished people

Individual evidence

1. ^ World Health Organization. Retrieved June 22, 2017 (UK English). 
2. ↑ SPIEGEL ONLINE, Hamburg Germany: Obesity: Worldwide there are more fat than thin people - SPIEGEL ONLINE - Health. Retrieved June 22, 2017 . 
3. ^ Obesity and overweight. Retrieved June 24, 2017 (UK English). 
4. ^ World Health Organization. Retrieved January 18, 2018 (UK English). 
5. ↑ ^{a b} Global Obesity Levels - Obesity - ProCon.org. Retrieved June 22, 2017 . 
6. ↑ ^{a b} Overweight and obesity. Retrieved June 22, 2017 (UK English).