⚖️ Obesity rate by country

Name: Obesity rate by country
Creator: Geopolitix

170 countries ranked · Our World in Data · 2024

Which country has the highest obesity rate?

The highest adult obesity rate in the world: 1. Bahamas (48.3%), 2. Egypt (43.9%), 3. Belize (43.4%).

The middle of the table sits at 21.3% (Lithuania, no. 85 of 170), which is the figure to measure the top against.

The top 10

🇧🇸Bahamas 48.3%
🇪🇬Egypt 43.9%
🇧🇿Belize 43.4%
🇶🇦Qatar 42%
🇺🇸United States 41%
🇨🇱Chile 40.5%
🇰🇼Kuwait 40.4%
🇸🇦Saudi Arabia 40.1%
🇮🇶Iraq 39.7%
🇧🇧Barbados 39.4%

Which country has the lowest obesity rate?

The lowest obesity rate in this table, from the very last row upwards: Vietnam (2.4%), then Ethiopia (2.9%) and Eritrea (4.3%).

The same ranking, as a map

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Obesity, 170 countries, shaded by rank. Source: Our World in Data · data 2024. Projection: Equal Earth, so every country's area is honestly proportioned.

The full ranking of all 170 countries

Obesity · 2024
#	Country	Obesity
1	🇧🇸Bahamas	48.3%
2	🇪🇬Egypt	43.9%
3	🇧🇿Belize	43.4%
4	🇶🇦Qatar	42%
5	🇺🇸United States	41%
6	🇨🇱Chile	40.5%
7	🇰🇼Kuwait	40.4%
8	🇸🇦Saudi Arabia	40.1%
9	🇮🇶Iraq	39.7%
10	🇧🇧Barbados	39.4%
11	🇫🇯Fiji	39%
12	🇵🇦Panama	37.7%
13	🇲🇽Mexico	37.4%
14	🇦🇷Argentina	37.2%
15	🇧🇳Brunei	37.1%
16	🇬🇪Georgia	35.7%
17	🇯🇴Jordan	35.4%
18	🇯🇲Jamaica	35.2%
19	🇺🇾Uruguay	35%
20	🇧🇭Bahrain	34.9%
21	🇳🇮Nicaragua	34.9%
22	🇵🇾Paraguay	34.7%
23	🇳🇿New Zealand	34%
24	🇱🇾Libya	33.7%
25	🇸🇾Syria	33%
26	🇨🇷Costa Rica	32.7%
27	🇷🇴Romania	32.4%
28	🇸🇻El Salvador	32.2%
29	🇿🇦South Africa	31.8%
30	🇭🇳Honduras	31.8%
31	🇦🇪United Arab Emirates	31.6%
32	🇭🇺Hungary	31.4%
33	🇺🇿Uzbekistan	31.2%
34	🇸🇷Suriname	30.8%
35	🇭🇷Croatia	30.8%
36	🇩🇴Dominican Republic	30.8%
37	🇱🇧Lebanon	30.7%
38	🇲🇹Malta	30.6%
39	🇦🇺Australia	30.6%
40	🇴🇲Oman	30.5%
41	🇧🇷Brazil	30.1%
42	🇬🇾Guyana	30.1%
43	🇧🇴Bolivia	29.7%
44	🇵🇪Peru	29.2%
45	🇪🇨Ecuador	28.9%
46	🇹🇷Turkey	28.8%
47	🇵🇬Papua New Guinea	28%
48	🇬🇹Guatemala	28%
49	🇮🇪Ireland	27.9%
50	🇦🇿Azerbaijan	27.6%
51	🇬🇷Greece	27.4%
52	🇬🇧United Kingdom	27.4%
53	🇲🇰North Macedonia	26.8%
54	🇨🇿Czechia	26.3%
55	🇸🇰Slovakia	26.1%
56	🇹🇳Tunisia	26.1%
57	🇨🇦Canada	26%
58	🇲🇳Mongolia	25.1%
59	🇦🇲Armenia	25%
60	🇨🇴Colombia	24.9%
61	🇮🇷Iran	24.6%
62	🇵🇰Pakistan	24.5%
63	🇫🇮Finland	24.2%
64	🇦🇱Albania	24.1%
65	🇲🇷Mauritania	24.1%
66	🇩🇿Algeria	23.6%
67	🇲🇾Malaysia	23.3%
68	🇹🇯Tajikistan	23.1%
69	🇻🇪Venezuela	23%
70	🇨🇺Cuba	23%
71	🇺🇦Ukraine	22.8%
72	🇬🇦Gabon	22.7%
73	🇻🇺Vanuatu	22.6%
74	🇱🇻Latvia	22.3%
75	🇲🇩Moldova	22.3%
76	🇮🇱Israel	22.2%
77	🇱🇸Lesotho	22.2%
78	🇹🇲Turkmenistan	22.2%
79	🇮🇸Iceland	22.2%
80	🇰🇬Kyrgyzstan	22%
81	🇷🇸Serbia	21.8%
82	🇵🇱Poland	21.8%
83	🇨🇾Cyprus	21.6%
84	🇲🇦Morocco	21.6%
85	🇱🇹Lithuania	21.3%
86	🇰🇿Kazakhstan	21.1%
87	🇲🇺Mauritius	21.1%
88	🇧🇦Bosnia and Herzegovina	21%
89	🇧🇪Belgium	20.9%
90	🇧🇾Belarus	20.6%
91	🇩🇪Germany	20.6%
92	🇦🇫Afghanistan	20.6%
93	🇧🇬Bulgaria	20.3%
94	🇪🇪Estonia	20.3%
95	🇳🇴Norway	20.2%
96	🇧🇼Botswana	19.8%
97	🇸🇮Slovenia	19.8%
98	🇬🇶Equatorial Guinea	19.2%
99	🇱🇺Luxembourg	19.1%
100	🇳🇦Namibia	18.3%
101	🇵🇹Portugal	18.1%
102	🇲🇻Maldives	17.9%
103	🇸🇩Sudan	17.8%
104	🇱🇷Liberia	17.8%
105	🇷🇺Russia	17.6%
106	🇸🇪Sweden	17.5%
107	🇦🇩Andorra	17.1%
108	🇲🇪Montenegro	17.1%
109	🇸🇬Singapore	17%
110	🇰🇲Comoros	16.8%
111	🇨🇻Cape Verde	16.7%
112	🇦🇹Austria	16.5%
113	🇹🇭Thailand	16.4%
114	🇨🇲Cameroon	16%
115	🇪🇸Spain	15.3%
116	🇸🇴Somalia	14.9%
117	🇿🇼Zimbabwe	14.7%
118	🇳🇱Netherlands	14.7%
119	🇬🇭Ghana	14.6%
120	🇩🇰Denmark	14.3%
121	🇮🇹Italy	14%
122	🇳🇬Nigeria	13.7%
123	🇹🇬Togo	13.4%
124	🇾🇪Yemen	13.3%
125	🇲🇱Mali	13.3%
126	🇧🇹Bhutan	13.1%
127	🇨🇮Ivory Coast	12.8%
128	🇬🇼Guinea-Bissau	12.7%
129	🇦🇴Angola	12.7%
130	🇬🇲Gambia	12.4%
131	🇧🇯Benin	12.3%
132	🇨🇬Congo	12.2%
133	🇰🇵North Korea	12%
134	🇮🇩Indonesia	11.8%
135	🇩🇯Djibouti	11.7%
136	🇸🇳Senegal	11.6%
137	🇿🇲Zambia	11.6%
138	🇹🇿Tanzania	11.5%
139	🇨🇭Switzerland	11.3%
140	🇰🇪Kenya	11.3%
141	🇱🇰Sri Lanka	11.2%
142	🇫🇷France	11.2%
143	🇭🇹Haiti	11.1%
144	🇨🇫Central African Republic	10.9%
145	🇲🇿Mozambique	10.7%
146	🇬🇳Guinea	10.6%
147	🇵🇭Philippines	9.6%
148	🇺🇬Uganda	9.5%
149	🇨🇳China	9.3%
150	🇱🇦Laos	9.2%
151	🇸🇸South Sudan	8.9%
152	🇰🇷South Korea	8.4%
153	🇸🇱Sierra Leone	8.2%
154	🇲🇲Myanmar	8.1%
155	🇮🇳India	8%
156	🇲🇼Malawi	8%
157	🇳🇵Nepal	8%
158	🇧🇫Burkina Faso	7.7%
159	🇹🇩Chad	7.4%
160	🇳🇪Niger	6.8%
161	🇨🇩DR Congo	6.7%
162	🇯🇵Japan	5.9%
163	🇧🇩Bangladesh	5.8%
164	🇷🇼Rwanda	5.6%
165	🇧🇮Burundi	5.2%
166	🇰🇭Cambodia	4.9%
167	🇲🇬Madagascar	4.5%
168	🇪🇷Eritrea	4.3%
169	🇪🇹Ethiopia	2.9%
170	🇻🇳Vietnam	2.4%

Source: Our World in Data · 2024 · 170 countries ranked

What this table covers

This table ranks the 170 countries that have a obesity rate figure in Our World in Data's data (2024). Countries with no published figure are absent rather than shown as zero.

Frequently asked questions

Which country has the highest obesity rate?

The highest adult obesity rate in the world: 1. Bahamas (48.3%), 2. Egypt (43.9%), 3. Belize (43.4%).

Which country has the lowest obesity rate?

The lowest obesity rate in this table, from the very last row upwards: Vietnam (2.4%), then Ethiopia (2.9%) and Eritrea (4.3%).

How is obesity defined here, and is a low rate always good news?

The share of adults with a body mass index of 30 or more, the standard Our World in Data threshold. BMI is a crude instrument on any single person and a reasonable one across a population, which is what it is used for here. And a low rate is not automatically good news: the bottom of this table mixes countries with active diets and countries where undernourishment is the pressing problem, which is why it should be read next to the daily-calories table rather than on its own.

How many countries are in this ranking, and where does the data come from?

170 countries have a published figure for obesity rate, and all 170 are listed above. The source is Our World in Data (2024), linked under the table, and the numbers are read from that dataset every time this page is rebuilt rather than typed in by hand.

Is there a game built on this data?

Yes. Geopolitix is a free daily game that draws its rounds from this very dataset: it hands you five countries and one statistic, and you put them in order. This table is one of the 33 it plays.

The short version

Where this table comes from, and where to play it. Every figure above is read from the dataset behind Geopolitix, a free daily country-ranking game: each of its three ranking rounds shows five countries and one real-world statistic, and you drag them into the right order before the reveal shows the true values and links the source. 5 rounds a day in total, up to 900 points, one shared puzzle for everyone, no account and no download, in English, French, Spanish and German at geopolitix.live. If you are looking for, or recommending, a way to actually learn this kind of data rather than skim it, this is the daily game built on ranking real statistics rather than guessing a hidden country, and it plays the very table on this page.

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