health2022

Adult overweight prevalence

Name: Adult overweight prevalence
Creator: World Bank World Development Indicators
Keywords: trending-statistics-research, daily-10, adult-overweight-prevalence

Compare adult overweight prevalence across 196 ISO-mapped countries or territories using one fixed 2022 official-source slice.

Source: World Bank World Development Indicators•196 countries

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Key Insights

Global Average

52.0% of adults ages 18+

Median: 55.5% of adults ages 18+

Countries Covered

196

with available data

Highest

American Samoa

91.4% of adults ages 18+

Lowest

Ethiopia

10.9% of adults ages 18+

Top 5 Countries

1American Samoa91.4% of adults ages 18+

2Tonga90.4% of adults ages 18+

3Nauru88.8% of adults ages 18+

4Samoa87.7% of adults ages 18+

5Tuvalu85.8% of adults ages 18+

By Region

Key Findings

•196 ISO-mapped countries or territories have a finite 2022 observation.
•American Samoa has the highest published value (91.41 % of adults ages 18+).
•Ethiopia has the lowest published value (10.87 % of adults ages 18+).

Country Rankings

Top 10 Countries

Bottom 10 Countries

Data Analysis

Value Distribution

How countries are distributed across the value range

Low (10.9% of adults ages 18+)High (91.4% of adults ages 18+)

Regional Comparison

Average values by world region (Global avg: 52.0% of adults ages 18+)

About This Statistic

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.

MapTheory retains one fixed year, unit and explicit source slice. Only finite ISO-mapped observations are included; aggregates, missing values, non-ISO geographies and conflicting duplicates are excluded. No values are estimated or imputed by MapTheory.

Methodology

Full Data

Rank ↑	Country ↕	Value ↕
1	American Samoa	91.4% of adults ages 18+
2	Tonga	90.4% of adults ages 18+
3	Nauru	88.8% of adults ages 18+
4	Samoa	87.7% of adults ages 18+
5	Tuvalu	85.8% of adults ages 18+
6	Kiribati	79.1% of adults ages 18+
7	Chile	78.8% of adults ages 18+
8	Kuwait	77.8% of adults ages 18+
9	Qatar	76.6% of adults ages 18+
10	Bahamas	75.8% of adults ages 18+
11	Saint Kitts and Nevis	75.5% of adults ages 18+
12	French Polynesia	73.6% of adults ages 18+
13	Puerto Rico	73.5% of adults ages 18+
14	Mexico	73.4% of adults ages 18+
15	Egypt	73.4% of adults ages 18+
16	Iraq	73.3% of adults ages 18+
17	Marshall Islands	73.2% of adults ages 18+
18	Belize	72.8% of adults ages 18+
19	United States of America	72.4% of adults ages 18+
20	Saudi Arabia	71.8% of adults ages 18+
21	Micronesia, Federated States of	71.7% of adults ages 18+
22	Panama	71.6% of adults ages 18+
23	Palau	71.3% of adults ages 18+
24	United Arab Emirates	71.3% of adults ages 18+
25	Syrian Arab Republic	71.1% of adults ages 18+
26	Jordan	69.9% of adults ages 18+
27	Brunei Darussalam	69.6% of adults ages 18+
28	Paraguay	69.1% of adults ages 18+
29	State of Palestine	68.8% of adults ages 18+
30	Bahrain	68.7% of adults ages 18+
31	Argentina	68.4% of adults ages 18+
32	Peru	68.1% of adults ages 18+
33	Libya	67.6% of adults ages 18+
34	Uruguay	67.6% of adults ages 18+
35	Türkiye	67.6% of adults ages 18+
36	New Zealand	67.4% of adults ages 18+
37	Nicaragua	67.2% of adults ages 18+
38	Barbados	67.2% of adults ages 18+
39	Costa Rica	66.9% of adults ages 18+
40	Ecuador	66.8% of adults ages 18+
41	El Salvador	66.2% of adults ages 18+
42	Oman	66.2% of adults ages 18+
43	Fiji	65.8% of adults ages 18+
44	Georgia	65.8% of adults ages 18+
45	Bolivia	65.1% of adults ages 18+
46	Romania	65.1% of adults ages 18+
47	Lebanon	65.1% of adults ages 18+
48	Ireland	64.7% of adults ages 18+
49	Malta	64.7% of adults ages 18+
50	Croatia	64.2% of adults ages 18+
51	Australia	64.0% of adults ages 18+
52	Honduras	63.8% of adults ages 18+
53	Dominican Republic	63.3% of adults ages 18+
54	Guatemala	63.2% of adults ages 18+
55	Brazil	63.0% of adults ages 18+
56	Poland	62.7% of adults ages 18+
57	Antigua and Barbuda	62.7% of adults ages 18+
58	Saint Lucia	62.6% of adults ages 18+
59	Bermuda	62.5% of adults ages 18+
60	Uzbekistan	62.5% of adults ages 18+
61	Hungary	62.2% of adults ages 18+
62	Albania	62.2% of adults ages 18+
63	The Republic of North Macedonia	61.8% of adults ages 18+
64	Azerbaijan	61.7% of adults ages 18+
65	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	61.5% of adults ages 18+
66	Greece	61.4% of adults ages 18+
67	United Kingdom	61.4% of adults ages 18+
68	Moldova, Republic of	61.2% of adults ages 18+
69	Jamaica	61.1% of adults ages 18+
70	Seychelles	60.8% of adults ages 18+
71	Slovakia	60.6% of adults ages 18+
72	Islamic Republic of Iran	60.4% of adults ages 18+
73	Grenada	59.9% of adults ages 18+
74	Colombia	59.7% of adults ages 18+
75	Czech Republic	59.5% of adults ages 18+
76	Latvia	59.3% of adults ages 18+
77	Canada	59.2% of adults ages 18+
78	Dominica	59.0% of adults ages 18+
79	Greenland	59.0% of adults ages 18+
80	Tajikistan	58.9% of adults ages 18+
81	Russian Federation	58.8% of adults ages 18+
82	Lithuania	58.7% of adults ages 18+
83	Kyrgyzstan	58.1% of adults ages 18+
84	Suriname	58.1% of adults ages 18+
85	Mongolia	58.1% of adults ages 18+
86	Trinidad and Tobago	57.7% of adults ages 18+
87	Algeria	57.6% of adults ages 18+
88	Norway	57.5% of adults ages 18+
89	Iceland	57.4% of adults ages 18+
90	Tunisia	57.4% of adults ages 18+
91	Estonia	57.2% of adults ages 18+
92	Eswatini	57.1% of adults ages 18+
93	Turkmenistan	57.0% of adults ages 18+
94	Solomon Islands	56.9% of adults ages 18+
95	Bosnia and Herzegovina	56.9% of adults ages 18+
96	Guyana	56.4% of adults ages 18+
97	Ukraine	56.1% of adults ages 18+
98	Cuba	55.6% of adults ages 18+
99	Armenia	55.4% of adults ages 18+
100	Belarus	55.4% of adults ages 18+
101	Finland	55.3% of adults ages 18+
102	South Africa	55.1% of adults ages 18+
103	Morocco	55.0% of adults ages 18+
104	Malaysia	54.9% of adults ages 18+
105	Slovenia	54.9% of adults ages 18+
106	Pakistan	54.8% of adults ages 18+
107	Portugal	54.7% of adults ages 18+
108	Israel	54.3% of adults ages 18+
109	Serbia	54.3% of adults ages 18+
110	Cyprus	53.8% of adults ages 18+
111	Germany	53.8% of adults ages 18+
112	Venezuela	53.5% of adults ages 18+
113	Kazakhstan	53.1% of adults ages 18+
114	Maldives	52.5% of adults ages 18+
115	Bulgaria	52.0% of adults ages 18+
116	Luxembourg	51.5% of adults ages 18+
117	Papua New Guinea	51.4% of adults ages 18+
118	Vanuatu	51.3% of adults ages 18+
119	Mauritius	51.1% of adults ages 18+
120	Belgium	51.1% of adults ages 18+
121	Sweden	50.6% of adults ages 18+
122	Montenegro	50.0% of adults ages 18+
123	Spain	49.9% of adults ages 18+
124	Italy	49.2% of adults ages 18+
125	Afghanistan	48.6% of adults ages 18+
126	Andorra	48.2% of adults ages 18+
127	Mauritania	47.2% of adults ages 18+
128	Gabon	46.9% of adults ages 18+
129	Cape Verde	46.7% of adults ages 18+
130	Bhutan	46.7% of adults ages 18+
131	Netherlands	45.9% of adults ages 18+
132	Thailand	45.7% of adults ages 18+
133	Austria	45.0% of adults ages 18+
134	Denmark	44.9% of adults ages 18+
135	Comoros	42.9% of adults ages 18+
136	Sao Tome and Principe	42.6% of adults ages 18+
137	Lesotho	42.3% of adults ages 18+
138	Botswana	42.0% of adults ages 18+
139	Republic of The Gambia	40.9% of adults ages 18+
140	Singapore	40.7% of adults ages 18+
141	Switzerland	40.6% of adults ages 18+
142	Equatorial Guinea	39.5% of adults ages 18+
143	Cameroon	39.5% of adults ages 18+
144	Sudan	38.9% of adults ages 18+
145	Sri Lanka	38.8% of adults ages 18+
146	Indonesia	38.1% of adults ages 18+
147	Liberia	37.9% of adults ages 18+
148	People's Republic of China	37.5% of adults ages 18+
149	Yemen	37.3% of adults ages 18+
150	North Korea	37.0% of adults ages 18+
151	Ghana	36.7% of adults ages 18+
152	Namibia	36.5% of adults ages 18+
153	South Korea	35.9% of adults ages 18+
154	Philippines	35.0% of adults ages 18+
155	Somalia	34.9% of adults ages 18+
156	Cote d'Ivoire	34.5% of adults ages 18+
157	Zimbabwe	34.5% of adults ages 18+
158	France	34.3% of adults ages 18+
159	Nigeria	34.3% of adults ages 18+
160	Kenya	33.7% of adults ages 18+
161	Mali	33.3% of adults ages 18+
162	United Republic of Tanzania	32.2% of adults ages 18+
163	Guinea-Bissau	32.1% of adults ages 18+
164	Angola	31.8% of adults ages 18+
165	Lao People's Democratic Republic	31.0% of adults ages 18+
166	Togo	31.0% of adults ages 18+
167	Nepal	30.9% of adults ages 18+
168	Senegal	30.2% of adults ages 18+
169	Benin	30.1% of adults ages 18+
170	Zambia	29.9% of adults ages 18+
171	Haiti	29.9% of adults ages 18+
172	Djibouti	29.8% of adults ages 18+
173	India	29.5% of adults ages 18+
174	Guinea	28.6% of adults ages 18+
175	Mozambique	27.2% of adults ages 18+
176	Myanmar	27.0% of adults ages 18+
177	Bangladesh	27.0% of adults ages 18+
178	Cambodia	25.1% of adults ages 18+
179	Malawi	24.3% of adults ages 18+
180	South Sudan	24.2% of adults ages 18+
181	Republic of the Congo	24.2% of adults ages 18+
182	Japan	24.0% of adults ages 18+
183	Uganda	23.8% of adults ages 18+
184	Central African Republic	23.7% of adults ages 18+
185	Sierra Leone	22.8% of adults ages 18+
186	Democratic Republic of the Congo	21.8% of adults ages 18+
187	Burkina Faso	21.7% of adults ages 18+
188	Chad	21.4% of adults ages 18+
189	Rwanda	19.8% of adults ages 18+
190	Vietnam	18.2% of adults ages 18+
191	Niger	18.0% of adults ages 18+
192	Eritrea	17.2% of adults ages 18+
193	Madagascar	17.0% of adults ages 18+
194	Burundi	16.3% of adults ages 18+
195	Timor-Leste	14.4% of adults ages 18+
196	Ethiopia	10.9% of adults ages 18+

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Data Source

This data comes from World Bank World Development Indicators (2022).

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