Overweight adults by country
Share of adults who weigh more than is healthy. The map opens on 2022, with figures for 196 countries.
Highest in 2022
- American Samoa 91.4%
- Tonga 90.4%
- Nauru 88.8%
- Samoa 87.7%
- Tuvalu 85.8%
Lowest in 2022
- Ethiopia 10.9%
- Timor-Leste 14.4%
- Burundi 16.3%
- Madagascar 17.0%
- Eritrea 17.2%
About the data
Prevalence of overweight adults is the percentage of adults ages 18 and over whose Body Mass Index (BMI) is more than 25 kg/m2. Body Mass Index (BMI) is a simple index of weight-for-height, or the weight in kilograms divided by the square of the height in meters.
- Unit
- % of adults (BMI ≥ 25)
- Years
- 1990–2022
- Data as of
- 2026-09-28
- Source
- World Bank
- License
- CC BY 4.0
- Credit
- World Bank, Health Nutrition and Population Statistics (SH.STA.OWAD.ZS), CC BY 4.0
All countries
- Afghanistan 48.6% (2022)
- Albania 62.2% (2022)
- Algeria 57.6% (2022)
- American Samoa 91.4% (2022)
- Andorra 48.2% (2022)
- Angola 31.8% (2022)
- Antigua and Barb. 62.7% (2022)
- Argentina 68.4% (2022)
- Armenia 55.4% (2022)
- Australia 64.0% (2022)
- Austria 45.0% (2022)
- Azerbaijan 61.7% (2022)
- Bahamas 75.8% (2022)
- Bahrain 68.7% (2022)
- Bangladesh 27.0% (2022)
- Barbados 67.2% (2022)
- Belarus 55.4% (2022)
- Belgium 51.1% (2022)
- Belize 72.8% (2022)
- Benin 30.1% (2022)
- Bermuda 62.5% (2022)
- Bhutan 46.7% (2022)
- Bolivia 65.1% (2022)
- Bosnia and Herz. 56.9% (2022)
- Botswana 42.0% (2022)
- Brazil 63.0% (2022)
- Brunei 69.6% (2022)
- Bulgaria 52.0% (2022)
- Burkina Faso 21.7% (2022)
- Burundi 16.3% (2022)
- Cabo Verde 46.7% (2022)
- Cambodia 25.1% (2022)
- Cameroon 39.5% (2022)
- Canada 59.2% (2022)
- Central African Rep. 23.7% (2022)
- Chad 21.4% (2022)
- Chile 78.8% (2022)
- China 37.5% (2022)
- Colombia 59.7% (2022)
- Comoros 42.9% (2022)
- Congo 24.2% (2022)
- Costa Rica 66.9% (2022)
- Côte d'Ivoire 34.5% (2022)
- Croatia 64.2% (2022)
- Cuba 55.6% (2022)
- Cyprus 53.8% (2022)
- Czechia 59.5% (2022)
- Dem. Rep. Congo 21.8% (2022)
- Denmark 44.9% (2022)
- Djibouti 29.8% (2022)
- Dominica 59.0% (2022)
- Dominican Rep. 63.3% (2022)
- Ecuador 66.8% (2022)
- Egypt 73.4% (2022)
- El Salvador 66.2% (2022)
- Eq. Guinea 39.5% (2022)
- Eritrea 17.2% (2022)
- Estonia 57.2% (2022)
- eSwatini 57.1% (2022)
- Ethiopia 10.9% (2022)
- Fiji 65.8% (2022)
- Finland 55.3% (2022)
- Fr. Polynesia 73.6% (2022)
- France 34.3% (2022)
- Gabon 46.9% (2022)
- Gambia 40.9% (2022)
- Georgia 65.8% (2022)
- Germany 53.8% (2022)
- Ghana 36.7% (2022)
- Greece 61.4% (2022)
- Greenland 59.0% (2022)
- Grenada 59.9% (2022)
- Guatemala 63.2% (2022)
- Guinea 28.6% (2022)
- Guinea-Bissau 32.1% (2022)
- Guyana 56.4% (2022)
- Haiti 29.9% (2022)
- Honduras 63.8% (2022)
- Hungary 62.2% (2022)
- Iceland 57.4% (2022)
- India 29.5% (2022)
- Indonesia 38.1% (2022)
- Iran 60.4% (2022)
- Iraq 73.3% (2022)
- Ireland 64.7% (2022)
- Israel 54.3% (2022)
- Italy 49.2% (2022)
- Jamaica 61.1% (2022)
- Japan 24.0% (2022)
- Jordan 69.9% (2022)
- Judea and Samaria and Gaza Strip 68.8% (2022)
- Kazakhstan 53.1% (2022)
- Kenya 33.7% (2022)
- Kiribati 79.1% (2022)
- Kuwait 77.8% (2022)
- Kyrgyzstan 58.1% (2022)
- Laos 31.0% (2022)
- Latvia 59.3% (2022)
- Lebanon 65.1% (2022)
- Lesotho 42.3% (2022)
- Liberia 37.9% (2022)
- Libya 67.6% (2022)
- Lithuania 58.7% (2022)
- Luxembourg 51.5% (2022)
- Madagascar 17.0% (2022)
- Malawi 24.3% (2022)
- Malaysia 54.9% (2022)
- Maldives 52.5% (2022)
- Mali 33.3% (2022)
- Malta 64.7% (2022)
- Marshall Is. 73.2% (2022)
- Mauritania 47.2% (2022)
- Mauritius 51.1% (2022)
- Mexico 73.4% (2022)
- Micronesia 71.7% (2022)
- Moldova 61.2% (2022)
- Mongolia 58.1% (2022)
- Montenegro 50.0% (2022)
- Morocco 55.0% (2022)
- Mozambique 27.2% (2022)
- Myanmar 27.0% (2022)
- Namibia 36.5% (2022)
- Nauru 88.8% (2022)
- Nepal 30.9% (2022)
- Netherlands 45.9% (2022)
- New Zealand 67.4% (2022)
- Nicaragua 67.2% (2022)
- Niger 18.0% (2022)
- Nigeria 34.3% (2022)
- North Korea 37.0% (2022)
- North Macedonia 61.8% (2022)
- Norway 57.5% (2022)
- Oman 66.2% (2022)
- Pakistan 54.8% (2022)
- Palau 71.3% (2022)
- Panama 71.6% (2022)
- Papua New Guinea 51.4% (2022)
- Paraguay 69.1% (2022)
- Peru 68.1% (2022)
- Philippines 35.0% (2022)
- Poland 62.7% (2022)
- Portugal 54.7% (2022)
- Puerto Rico 73.5% (2022)
- Qatar 76.6% (2022)
- Romania 65.1% (2022)
- Russia 58.8% (2022)
- Rwanda 19.8% (2022)
- S. Sudan 24.2% (2022)
- Saint Lucia 62.6% (2022)
- Samoa 87.7% (2022)
- São Tomé and Principe 42.6% (2022)
- Saudi Arabia 71.8% (2022)
- Senegal 30.2% (2022)
- Serbia 54.3% (2022)
- Seychelles 60.8% (2022)
- Sierra Leone 22.8% (2022)
- Singapore 40.7% (2022)
- Slovakia 60.6% (2022)
- Slovenia 54.9% (2022)
- Solomon Is. 56.9% (2022)
- Somalia 34.9% (2022)
- South Africa 55.1% (2022)
- South Korea 35.9% (2022)
- Spain 49.9% (2022)
- Sri Lanka 38.8% (2022)
- St. Kitts and Nevis 75.5% (2022)
- St. Vin. and Gren. 61.5% (2022)
- Sudan 38.9% (2022)
- Suriname 58.1% (2022)
- Sweden 50.6% (2022)
- Switzerland 40.6% (2022)
- Syria 71.1% (2022)
- Tajikistan 58.9% (2022)
- Tanzania 32.2% (2022)
- Thailand 45.7% (2022)
- Timor-Leste 14.4% (2022)
- Togo 31.0% (2022)
- Tonga 90.4% (2022)
- Trinidad and Tobago 57.7% (2022)
- Tunisia 57.4% (2022)
- Turkey 67.6% (2022)
- Turkmenistan 57.0% (2022)
- Tuvalu 85.8% (2022)
- Uganda 23.8% (2022)
- Ukraine 56.1% (2022)
- United Arab Emirates 71.3% (2022)
- United Kingdom 61.4% (2022)
- United States of America 72.4% (2022)
- Uruguay 67.6% (2022)
- Uzbekistan 62.5% (2022)
- Vanuatu 51.3% (2022)
- Venezuela 53.5% (2022)
- Vietnam 18.2% (2022)
- Yemen 37.3% (2022)
- Zambia 29.9% (2022)
- Zimbabwe 34.5% (2022)