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Adult obesity rate in Louisiana

Adult obesity rate in Louisiana was 35.6% in 2025, according to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. That is down 3.6 pts from 2024. That is the 19th highest of 48 states in 2025.

202535.6%
Change on 2024-3.6 pts
Rank19th of 48US states ranked
Series high40.12022
Series low33.12013

Adult obesity rate in Louisiana, 2011 to 2025

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3234363840422011201420172020202320252011: 33.4 %2012: 34.7 %2013: 33.1 %2014: 34.9 %2015: 36.2 %2016: 35.5 %2017: 36.2 %2018: 36.8 %2019: 35.9 %2020: 38.1 %2021: 38.6 %2022: 40.1 %2023: 39.9 %2024: 39.2 %2025: 35.6 %
%. Source: CDC. Retrieved 2026-10-09, published 2026-09-24.
All 15 values
Period%
202535.6
202439.2
202339.9
202240.1
202138.6
202038.1
201935.9
201836.8
201736.2
201635.5
201536.2
201434.9
201333.1
201234.7
201133.4

Compared with United States

Place2025
Louisiana35.6
United States33.5

Rankings

Definition

Percentage of adults aged 18 and over with obesity, defined as a body mass index of 30 or more calculated from self-reported height and weight. Crude prevalence, not age-adjusted.

United States: CDC Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS), a telephone survey. Self-reported measurements give lower figures than measured surveys such as NHANES. The national figure pools respondents from the 50 states and DC; a state that did not meet BRFSS data standards in a year (California, Mississippi and Nevada in 2025) has no value and is left out of that year's national figure. Territories are not included. The series starts in 2011, when BRFSS changed its weighting and added cell phones, so earlier estimates are not comparable.

How to cite

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Nutrition, Physical Activity, and Obesity: Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (hn4x-zwk7), percent of adults aged 18 years and older who have obesity, total. https://data.cdc.gov/resource/hn4x-zwk7.json?%24order=%3Aid&%24limit=50000&%24where=questionid%3D%27Q036%27+AND+stratificationid1%3D%27OVERALL%27+AND+datavaluetypeid%3D%27VALUE%27. Retrieved 2026-10-09.

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What is the adult obesity rate in Louisiana?

Adult obesity rate in Louisiana was 35.6% in 2025, according to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. That is down 3.6 pts from 2024. That is the 19th highest of 48 states in 2025.

Where does this figure come from?

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Nutrition, Physical Activity, and Obesity: Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (hn4x-zwk7), percent of adults aged 18 years and older who have obesity, total. Retrieved by Invokely on 2026-10-09.

What was the highest adult obesity rate in Louisiana?

40.1% in 2022, the highest value since 2011 in this series.

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