Countries by adult obesity rate, age-standardized, 2024

American Samoa had the highest adult obesity rate, age-standardized of 199 countries in 2024, at 75.9%. Vietnam had the lowest, at 2.4%. The median was 22.3%. Source: World Health Organization.

Highest75.9American Samoa

Lowest2.4Vietnam

Median22.3199 countries

Top 40 countries, 2024

%. Source: World Health Organization, Age-standardized prevalence of obesity among adults (18+ years), both sexes (NCD_BMI_30A). Retrieved 2026-10-12.

Full ranking

Rank	Countries	2024 (%)	Change on 2023
1	American Samoa	75.9	+0.3 pts
2	Tonga	73.8	+0.8 pts
3	Cook Islands	72.4	+0.7 pts
4	Nauru	71.4	+0.3 pts
5	Tokelau	70.7	+0.4 pts
6	Niue	66.9	+0.5 pts
7	Tuvalu	65.1	+0.5 pts
8	Samoa	64.3	+0.6 pts
9	French Polynesia	49.2	+0.5 pts
10	Micronesia	48.6	+0.5 pts
11	Bahamas	48.3	+0.7 pts
12	Saint Kitts and Nevis	46.7	+0.6 pts
13	Kiribati	45.6	+0.2 pts
14	Egypt	43.9	+0.4 pts
15	Belize	43.4	+0.7 pts
16	Puerto Rico	42.4	+0.6 pts
17	Qatar	42	+0.3 pts
18	Marshall Islands	42	+0.1 pts
19	United States	41	+0.3 pts
20	Palau	40.5	+0.2 pts
21	Chile	40.5	+0.9 pts
22	Kuwait	40.4	-0.1 pts
23	Saudi Arabia	40.1	+0.3 pts
24	Iraq	39.7	+0.3 pts
25	Barbados	39.4	+0.7 pts
26	Fiji	39	+0.9 pts
27	Panama	37.7	+0.9 pts
28	Palestine	37.4	+0.2 pts
29	Mexico	37.4	+0.7 pts
30	Argentina	37.2	+1 pts
31	Brunei	37.1	+1.1 pts
32	Georgia	35.7	+0.7 pts
33	Jordan	35.4	-0.2 pts
34	Jamaica	35.2	+0.8 pts
35	Uruguay	34.9	+0.9 pts
36	Bahrain	34.9	+0.2 pts
37	Nicaragua	34.9	+0.6 pts
38	Saint Lucia	34.8	+0.8 pts
39	Paraguay	34.7	+0.8 pts
40	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	34.6	+0.7 pts
41	Antigua and Barbuda	34.6	+0.7 pts
42	Bermuda	34.1	+0.7 pts
43	New Zealand	34	+0.4 pts
44	Seychelles	33.9	+0.9 pts
45	Libya	33.7	+0.1 pts
46	Syria	33	+0.2 pts
47	Costa Rica	32.7	+0.7 pts
48	Dominica	32.5	+0.7 pts
49	Romania	32.4	+0.9 pts
50	El Salvador	32.2	+0.6 pts
51	South Africa	31.8	+0.3 pts
52	Honduras	31.8	+0.7 pts
53	United Arab Emirates	31.6	-0.1 pts
54	Grenada	31.5	+0.7 pts
55	Hungary	31.4	+0.5 pts
56	Uzbekistan	31.2	+0.9 pts
57	Trinidad and Tobago	30.9	+0.5 pts
58	Suriname	30.8	+0.7 pts
59	Croatia	30.8	+0.7 pts
60	Dominican Republic	30.8	+0.7 pts
61	Lebanon	30.7	+0.3 pts
62	Malta	30.6	-0 pts
63	Australia	30.6	+0.4 pts
64	Oman	30.5	+0.4 pts
65	Brazil	30.1	+1 pts
66	Guyana	30.1	+0.8 pts
67	Bolivia	29.7	+0.7 pts
68	Eswatini	29.6	+0.6 pts
69	Peru	29.2	+0.9 pts
70	Ecuador	28.9	+0.8 pts
71	Türkiye	28.8	-0.2 pts
72	Greenland	28.1	+0.5 pts
73	Papua New Guinea	28	+0.5 pts
74	Guatemala	28	+0.7 pts
75	Ireland	27.9	+0.2 pts
76	Azerbaijan	27.6	+0.6 pts
77	Greece	27.4	+0.2 pts
78	United Kingdom	27.4	+0.2 pts
79	North Macedonia	26.8	+0.4 pts
80	Czechia	26.3	+0.4 pts
81	Tunisia	26.1	+0.3 pts
82	Slovakia	26.1	+0.5 pts
83	Canada	26	+0.1 pts
84	Mongolia	25.1	+0.7 pts
85	Armenia	25	+0.4 pts
86	Colombia	24.9	+0.6 pts
87	Iran	24.6	+0.3 pts
88	Pakistan	24.5	+1.1 pts
89	Finland	24.2	+0.5 pts
90	Albania	24.1	+0.6 pts
91	Mauritania	24.1	+0.6 pts
92	Algeria	23.6	+0.4 pts
93	Malaysia	23.3	+0.7 pts
94	Tajikistan	23.1	+0.6 pts
95	Venezuela	23	0 pts
96	Cuba	23	+0.6 pts
97	Ukraine	22.8	0 pts
98	Gabon	22.7	+0.7 pts
99	Vanuatu	22.6	+0.4 pts
100	Latvia	22.3	0 pts
101	Moldova	22.3	-0.1 pts
102	Israel	22.2	-0.1 pts
103	Lesotho	22.2	+0.5 pts
104	Turkmenistan	22.2	+0.4 pts
105	Iceland	22.2	+0.3 pts
106	Kyrgyzstan	22	+0.7 pts
107	Serbia	21.8	+0.3 pts
108	Solomon Islands	21.8	+0.4 pts
109	Poland	21.8	0 pts
110	Morocco	21.6	+0.4 pts
111	Cyprus	21.6	-0 pts
112	Lithuania	21.3	-0.1 pts
113	Kazakhstan	21.1	+0.4 pts
114	Mauritius	21.1	+0.5 pts
115	Bosnia and Herzegovina	21	+0.3 pts
116	Belgium	20.8	+0.3 pts
117	Belarus	20.6	-0.1 pts
118	Germany	20.6	0 pts
119	Afghanistan	20.6	+1 pts
120	Bulgaria	20.3	+0.2 pts
121	Estonia	20.3	-0.1 pts
122	Norway	20.2	+0.3 pts
123	Botswana	19.8	+0.5 pts
124	Slovenia	19.8	+0.5 pts
125	Equatorial Guinea	19.2	+0.5 pts
126	Luxembourg	19	+0.1 pts
127	Namibia	18.3	+0.4 pts
128	Portugal	18.1	-0.1 pts
129	São Tomé and Príncipe	17.9	+0.6 pts
130	Maldives	17.9	+0.7 pts
131	Sudan	17.8	+0.7 pts
132	Liberia	17.8	+1.1 pts
133	Russia	17.6	-0.3 pts
134	Sweden	17.5	+0.3 pts
135	Andorra	17.1	0 pts
136	Montenegro	17.1	+0.2 pts
137	Singapore	17	+0.9 pts
138	Comoros	16.8	+0.6 pts
139	Cape Verde	16.7	+0.6 pts
140	Austria	16.5	+0.3 pts
141	Thailand	16.4	+0.7 pts
142	Cameroon	16	+0.4 pts
143	Spain	15.3	-0.4 pts
144	Somalia	14.9	+0.5 pts
145	Zimbabwe	14.7	+0.4 pts
146	Netherlands	14.7	+0.1 pts
147	Ghana	14.5	+0.4 pts
148	Denmark	14.3	+0.2 pts
149	Italy	14	-0.2 pts
150	Nigeria	13.7	+0.5 pts
151	Togo	13.4	+0.6 pts
152	Yemen	13.3	+0.4 pts
153	Mali	13.3	+0.6 pts
154	Bhutan	13.1	+0.6 pts
155	Côte d’Ivoire	12.8	+0.5 pts
156	Guinea-Bissau	12.7	+0.5 pts
157	Angola	12.7	+0.4 pts
158	Gambia	12.4	+0.5 pts
159	Benin	12.2	+0.5 pts
160	Republic of the Congo	12.2	+0.4 pts
161	North Korea	12	+0.5 pts
162	Indonesia	11.8	+0.6 pts
163	Djibouti	11.7	+0.5 pts
164	Senegal	11.6	+0.5 pts
165	Zambia	11.6	+0.5 pts
166	Tanzania	11.5	+0.5 pts
167	Switzerland	11.3	+0.1 pts
168	Kenya	11.3	+0.4 pts
169	Sri Lanka	11.2	+0.5 pts
170	France	11.2	-0.1 pts
171	Haiti	11.1	+0.3 pts
172	Central African Republic	10.9	+0.5 pts
173	Mozambique	10.6	+0.5 pts
174	Guinea	10.6	+0.5 pts
175	Philippines	9.6	+0.4 pts
176	Uganda	9.5	+0.5 pts
177	China	9.3	+0.5 pts
178	Laos	9.2	+0.5 pts
179	South Sudan	8.9	+0.4 pts
180	South Korea	8.4	+0.5 pts
181	Sierra Leone	8.2	+0.3 pts
182	Myanmar	8.1	+0.3 pts
183	India	8	+0.4 pts
184	Malawi	8	+0.4 pts
185	Nepal	8	+0.5 pts
186	Burkina Faso	7.7	+0.5 pts
187	Chad	7.4	+0.3 pts
188	Niger	6.8	+0.3 pts
189	Democratic Republic of the Congo	6.7	+0.3 pts
190	Japan	5.9	+0.2 pts
191	Bangladesh	5.8	+0.3 pts
192	Rwanda	5.6	+0.3 pts
193	Burundi	5.2	+0.3 pts
194	Cambodia	4.9	+0.3 pts
195	Madagascar	4.5	+0.3 pts
196	Eritrea	4.3	+0.2 pts
197	Timor-Leste	3.6	+0.3 pts
198	Ethiopia	2.9	+0.2 pts
199	Vietnam	2.4	+0.2 pts

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Percentage of adults aged 18 and over with obesity, defined as a body mass index of 30 kg/m² or more, women and men together. Age-standardized to the WHO standard population, so countries with older or younger populations can be compared. Estimates of the NCD Risk Factor Collaboration (NCD-RisC), published by WHO, modelled from height and weight measured in national surveys.

Model estimates for every country and year, including years without a survey. A separate series from adult_obesity_rate, the CDC crude rate for US states from self-reported height and weight, which gives lower values than measurement. Values are served with every decimal WHO publishes. WHO revises these series, past years included, when new national reports or estimates come in, so values can change between retrievals.

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World Health Organization, data.who.int. Age-standardized prevalence of obesity among adults (18+ years), both sexes (NCD_BMI_30A) [Indicator]. https://data.who.int/indicators/i/C6262EC/BEFA58B (Accessed on 2026-10-12). Licensed under CC BY 4.0. No changes made to source values. WHO does not endorse Invokely or this use of the data.

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Age-standardized prevalence of obesity among adults (18+ years), both sexes (NCD_BMI_30A), Countries by adult obesity rate, age-standardized, 2024. World Health Organization, 30 Sept. 2026, https://data.who.int/indicators/i/C6262EC/BEFA58B. Invokely, https://invokely.ai/rankings/adult-obesity-rate-age-standardized/countries. Accessed 12 Oct. 2026.

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American Samoa, with 75.9% in 2024, according to World Health Organization.

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Vietnam, with 2.4% in 2024.

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