Countries by adult obesity rate, men, age-standardized

Nauru had the highest adult obesity rate, men, age-standardized of 199 countries in 2022, at 70.5%. Ethiopia had the lowest, at 1.2%. The median was 18.8%. Source: World Health Organization.

Highest70.5Nauru

Lowest1.2Ethiopia

Median18.8199 countries

Top 40 countries, 2022

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

Full ranking

Rank	Countries	2022 (%)	Change on 2021
1	Nauru	70.5	+0.4 pts
2	American Samoa	70.1	+0.3 pts
3	Cook Islands	68.8	+0.9 pts
4	Tokelau	65.9	+0.4 pts
5	Niue	62.3	+0.5 pts
6	Tonga	62	+1 pts
7	Tuvalu	56.7	+0.5 pts
8	Samoa	50.5	+0.6 pts
9	French Polynesia	46.4	+0.5 pts
10	United States	39.2	+0.2 pts
11	Micronesia	38.4	+0.5 pts
12	Qatar	38.2	+0.3 pts
13	Bahamas	38.1	+0.4 pts
14	Kiribati	36.7	+0.2 pts
15	Kuwait	36.5	-0.1 pts
16	Saint Kitts and Nevis	36.2	+0.5 pts
17	Palau	36	-0 pts
18	Saudi Arabia	35.8	+0.3 pts
19	Puerto Rico	35.2	+0.5 pts
20	Argentina	34.1	+0.9 pts
21	Hungary	33.2	+0.7 pts
22	Malta	33	0 pts
23	Chile	32.6	+0.9 pts
24	Romania	32.4	+1.1 pts
25	Georgia	32.3	+0.9 pts
26	Croatia	32.3	+0.9 pts
27	Marshall Islands	32.1	-0 pts
28	Belize	32	+0.6 pts
29	New Zealand	31.8	+0.3 pts
30	Brunei	31.6	+0.9 pts
31	Mexico	31.3	+0.7 pts
32	Iraq	30.7	+0.2 pts
33	Australia	30.6	+0.4 pts
34	Bahrain	30.5	+0.2 pts
35	Uruguay	30.1	+0.8 pts
36	Egypt	30.1	+0.3 pts
37	Jordan	29.6	-0.2 pts
38	Czechia	29.2	+0.6 pts
39	Lebanon	28.9	+0.2 pts
40	Panama	28.7	+0.8 pts
41	Slovakia	28.6	+0.7 pts
42	Ireland	28.3	+0.2 pts
43	Palestine	28.3	0 pts
44	United Arab Emirates	27.9	-0.1 pts
45	Paraguay	27.9	+0.7 pts
46	Nicaragua	27.7	+0.5 pts
47	Canada	27.2	+0.1 pts
48	Fiji	27.2	+0.8 pts
49	Greece	27.2	+0.2 pts
50	Barbados	26.7	+0.6 pts
51	North Macedonia	26.2	+0.6 pts
52	Uzbekistan	26.2	+1 pts
53	United Kingdom	25.6	+0.1 pts
54	Poland	25.1	+0.3 pts
55	Libya	25.1	+0.1 pts
56	Oman	25	+0.3 pts
57	Syria	24.7	+0.2 pts
58	Costa Rica	24.6	+0.5 pts
59	Serbia	24.2	+0.6 pts
60	Brazil	24.2	+0.9 pts
61	Slovenia	24	+0.8 pts
62	Trinidad and Tobago	23.9	+0.5 pts
63	Papua New Guinea	23.6	+0.4 pts
64	Greenland	23.6	+0.4 pts
65	Bermuda	23.4	+0.6 pts
66	Antigua and Barbuda	23.3	+0.6 pts
67	Seychelles	23.3	+0.9 pts
68	Cyprus	23.2	-0 pts
69	Peru	23.1	+0.9 pts
70	Dominican Republic	22.9	+0.6 pts
71	El Salvador	22.8	+0.5 pts
72	Honduras	22.8	+0.5 pts
73	Finland	22.7	+0.4 pts
74	Iceland	22.6	+0.3 pts
75	Lithuania	22.6	+0.1 pts
76	Bulgaria	22.5	+0.4 pts
77	Latvia	22.4	+0.2 pts
78	Israel	22.2	0 pts
79	Ecuador	22.2	+0.8 pts
80	Türkiye	22.1	-0.1 pts
81	Bolivia	22.1	+0.6 pts
82	Germany	22.1	0 pts
83	Guatemala	21.7	+0.8 pts
84	Albania	21.7	+0.7 pts
85	Mongolia	21.2	+0.8 pts
86	Bosnia and Herzegovina	20.6	+0.5 pts
87	Moldova	20.6	+0.1 pts
88	Norway	20.4	+0.3 pts
89	Venezuela	20.4	-0.1 pts
90	Luxembourg	20.3	+0.1 pts
91	Estonia	20.2	-0.1 pts
92	Saint Lucia	19.8	+0.6 pts
93	Suriname	19.2	+0.5 pts
94	Belgium	19.2	+0.2 pts
95	Azerbaijan	19.2	+0.8 pts
96	Ukraine	19.1	+0.1 pts
97	Austria	19	+0.4 pts
98	Pakistan	18.9	+1 pts
99	Kazakhstan	18.9	+0.8 pts
100	Andorra	18.8	0 pts
101	Montenegro	18.7	+0.4 pts
102	Belarus	18.7	0 pts
103	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	18.6	+0.5 pts
104	Armenia	18.6	+0.6 pts
105	Turkmenistan	18.4	+0.5 pts
106	Cuba	18.4	+0.6 pts
107	Grenada	18.3	+0.5 pts
108	Spain	18.3	-0.4 pts
109	Jamaica	18.3	+0.6 pts
110	Iran	18.1	+0.3 pts
111	Tunisia	18.1	+0.3 pts
112	Sweden	17.9	+0.3 pts
113	Colombia	17.8	+0.4 pts
114	Dominica	17.6	+0.6 pts
115	Guyana	17.5	+0.6 pts
116	Malaysia	17.3	+0.5 pts
117	Portugal	17.2	-0.1 pts
118	Tajikistan	17	+0.4 pts
119	Vanuatu	16.7	+0.3 pts
120	Russia	16.6	-0 pts
121	Kyrgyzstan	16.6	+0.7 pts
122	Singapore	16.1	+1 pts
123	Solomon Islands	15.7	+0.2 pts
124	Denmark	15.2	+0.1 pts
125	Mauritius	14.9	+0.5 pts
126	Italy	14.9	-0.2 pts
127	Algeria	14.9	+0.3 pts
128	South Africa	14.4	+0.1 pts
129	Netherlands	14	+0.1 pts
130	Eswatini	13.8	+0.6 pts
131	Afghanistan	13.4	+0.6 pts
132	Switzerland	13.3	+0.1 pts
133	Morocco	12.8	+0.2 pts
134	Maldives	12.2	+0.5 pts
135	Thailand	11.5	+0.7 pts
136	Liberia	11.5	+0.9 pts
137	Gabon	11.1	+0.3 pts
138	France	11.1	-0.2 pts
139	Sudan	10.7	+0.6 pts
140	Namibia	10.1	+0.3 pts
141	Yemen	9.6	+0.3 pts
142	São Tomé and Príncipe	9.5	+0.4 pts
143	Cameroon	9.1	+0.2 pts
144	South Korea	8.9	+0.7 pts
145	Bhutan	8.9	+0.4 pts
146	China	8.7	+0.6 pts
147	Mauritania	8.4	+0.3 pts
148	Mali	8.4	+0.3 pts
149	North Korea	8.3	+0.4 pts
150	Cape Verde	8.3	+0.3 pts
151	Botswana	8.2	+0.2 pts
152	Nigeria	8	+0.2 pts
153	Equatorial Guinea	7.8	+0.3 pts
154	Côte d’Ivoire	7.6	+0.3 pts
155	Japan	7.3	+0.3 pts
156	Comoros	7.3	+0.4 pts
157	Guinea-Bissau	7.2	+0.3 pts
158	Chad	7	+0.3 pts
159	Philippines	6.8	+0.3 pts
160	Benin	6.8	+0.3 pts
161	Sri Lanka	6.4	+0.3 pts
162	Angola	6.3	+0.2 pts
163	Indonesia	6.1	+0.4 pts
164	Central African Republic	6	+0.3 pts
165	Laos	6	+0.3 pts
166	Lesotho	5.9	+0.2 pts
167	Republic of the Congo	5.7	+0.3 pts
168	Guinea	5.6	+0.3 pts
169	Tanzania	5.6	+0.4 pts
170	Togo	5.6	+0.3 pts
171	Djibouti	5.6	+0.3 pts
172	Burundi	5.5	+0.3 pts
173	Myanmar	5.4	+0.2 pts
174	Zimbabwe	5.4	+0.3 pts
175	Somalia	5.4	+0.3 pts
176	Haiti	5.2	+0.1 pts
177	India	5.2	+0.3 pts
178	Mozambique	5.2	+0.3 pts
179	Kenya	5.1	+0.2 pts
180	Gambia	5.1	+0.2 pts
181	Zambia	4.9	+0.3 pts
182	South Sudan	4.7	+0.2 pts
183	Nepal	4.7	+0.2 pts
184	Ghana	4.6	+0.1 pts
185	Niger	4.3	+0.2 pts
186	Senegal	4.2	+0.2 pts
187	Madagascar	4.1	+0.3 pts
188	Burkina Faso	3.9	+0.2 pts
189	Democratic Republic of the Congo	3.8	+0.1 pts
190	Uganda	3.7	+0.3 pts
191	Cambodia	3.2	+0.2 pts
192	Malawi	2.9	+0.2 pts
193	Sierra Leone	2.8	+0.1 pts
194	Bangladesh	2.5	+0.1 pts
195	Eritrea	2.3	+0.2 pts
196	Vietnam	1.9	+0.2 pts
197	Rwanda	1.7	+0.1 pts
198	Timor-Leste	1.5	+0.1 pts
199	Ethiopia	1.2	+0.1 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, men only. 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), male (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), male (NCD_BMI_30A), Countries by adult obesity rate, men, age-standardized, 2022. World Health Organization, 30 Sept. 2026, https://data.who.int/indicators/i/C6262EC/BEFA58B. Invokely, https://invokely.ai/rankings/adult-obesity-rate-men-age-standardized/countries?period=2022. Accessed 12 Oct. 2026.

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Which country has the highest adult obesity rate, men, age-standardized?

Nauru, with 70.5% in 2022, according to World Health Organization.

Which country has the lowest adult obesity rate, men, age-standardized?

Ethiopia, with 1.2% in 2022.

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