Overweight children by country
Young children who weigh too much for their height. The map opens on 2019, with figures for 55 countries.
Highest in 2019
- Tunisia 18.3%
- Turks and Caicos Is. 17.5%
- Albania 16.5%
- South Africa 15.6%
- Cameroon 13.8%
Lowest in 2019
About the data
- Unit
- % of children under 5
- Years
- 1992–2023
- Data as of
- 2026-09-28
- Source
- Global Data Lab
- License
- Free for non-commercial use with credit; commercial use needs written permission from the Global Data Lab
- Credit
- Data retrieved from the Health database of the Global Data Lab (v2.1), https://globaldatalab.org/health/
All countries
- Albania 16.5% (2019)
- Algeria 13.7% (2019)
- Angola 4.2% (2019)
- Armenia 13.0% (2019)
- Azerbaijan 14.8% (2006)
- Bangladesh 3.0% (2019)
- Barbados 12.5% (2016)
- Belarus 10.3% (2009)
- Belize 3.4% (2014)
- Benin 2.1% (2018)
- Bhutan 8.9% (2014)
- Bolivia 10.6% (2011)
- Bosnia and Herz. 13.2% (2014)
- Botswana 11.7% (2004)
- Brazil 6.9% (2000)
- Burkina Faso 3.6% (2010)
- Burundi 1.1% (2019)
- Cambodia 2.4% (2014)
- Cameroon 13.8% (2019)
- Central African Rep. 3.6% (2019)
- Chad 2.9% (2019)
- Colombia 5.2% (2013)
- Comoros 11.8% (2012)
- Congo 8.2% (2018)
- Costa Rica 8.5% (2019)
- Côte d'Ivoire 5.4% (1999)
- Cuba 10.2% (2019)
- Dem. Rep. Congo 5.2% (2019)
- Djibouti 15.2% (2010)
- Dominican Rep. 7.9% (2016)
- Egypt 14.9% (2017)
- El Salvador 6.6% (2018)
- Eritrea 2.4% (2005)
- eSwatini 10.0% (2017)
- Ethiopia 2.7% (2019)
- Fiji 7.8% (2019)
- Gabon 8.8% (2012)
- Gambia 1.6% (2018)
- Georgia 5.0% (2019)
- Ghana 1.6% (2018)
- Guatemala 4.1% (2018)
- Guinea 6.8% (2019)
- Guinea-Bissau 2.9% (2019)
- Guyana 4.1% (2017)
- Haiti 4.0% (2019)
- Honduras 4.9% (2019)
- India 4.0% (2019)
- Iraq 5.7% (2019)
- Jordan 4.4% (2012)
- Judea and Samaria and Gaza Strip 8.6% (2014)
- Kazakhstan 6.1% (2018)
- Kenya 4.8% (2014)
- Kiribati 2.3% (2019)
- Kyrgyzstan 7.7% (2019)
- Laos 4.8% (2019)
- Lesotho 8.6% (2018)
- Liberia 3.8% (2013)
- Madagascar 1.4% (2018)
- Malawi 5.4% (2016)
- Maldives 4.1% (2019)
- Mali 1.7% (2019)
- Mauritania 1.8% (2015)
- Mexico 5.1% (2019)
- Moldova 3.3% (2015)
- Mongolia 11.5% (2019)
- Montenegro 5.6% (2019)
- Morocco 16.1% (2006)
- Mozambique 10.0% (2011)
- Myanmar 1.5% (2019)
- Namibia 4.9% (2016)
- Nepal 3.3% (2019)
- Nicaragua 7.9% (2004)
- Niger 3.0% (2015)
- Nigeria 1.9% (2019)
- North Macedonia 11.1% (2019)
- Pakistan 2.7% (2019)
- Papua New Guinea 12.0% (2019)
- Peru 3.9% (2015)
- Rwanda 10.6% (2015)
- S. Sudan 7.1% (2014)
- Saint Lucia 6.0% (2016)
- Samoa 8.7% (2019)
- São Tomé and Principe 4.7% (2019)
- Senegal 2.1% (2019)
- Serbia 11.4% (2019)
- Sierra Leone 5.2% (2019)
- Somalia 6.1% (2010)
- South Africa 15.6% (2019)
- Sudan 4.7% (2017)
- Suriname 3.8% (2019)
- Syria 20.6% (2010)
- Tajikistan 2.3% (2019)
- Tanzania 4.9% (2015)
- Thailand 9.9% (2019)
- Timor-Leste 6.4% (2019)
- Togo 0.7% (2019)
- Tonga 11.9% (2019)
- Trinidad and Tobago 12.1% (2015)
- Tunisia 18.3% (2019)
- Turkey 8.0% (2019)
- Turkmenistan 3.5% (2019)
- Turks and Caicos Is. 17.5% (2019)
- Tuvalu 4.6% (2019)
- Uganda 4.5% (2019)
- Uzbekistan 12.2% (2009)
- Vanuatu 5.4% (2007)
- Vietnam 5.0% (2014)
- Yemen 3.3% (2017)
- Zambia 6.4% (2019)
- Zimbabwe 3.1% (2019)