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DEFINITION:
This entry gives the percent of a country's population considered to be obese. Obesity is defined as an adult having a Body Mass Index (BMI) greater to or equal to 30.0. BMI is calculated by taking a person's weight in kg and dividing it by the person's squared height in meters.
CONTENTS
# | COUNTRY | AMOUNT | DATE | GRAPH | HISTORY |
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1 | Nauru | 71.1% | 2008 | ||
2 | Cook Islands | 63.7% | 2008 | ||
3 | Tonga | 57.6% | 2008 | ||
4 | Samoa | 54.1% | 2008 | ||
5 | Kiribati | 46% | 2008 | ||
6 | Marshall Islands | 45.4% | 2008 | ||
7 | Kuwait | 42% | 2008 | ||
=8 | Barbados | 34.7% | 2008 | ||
=8 | The Bahamas | 34.7% | 2008 | ||
10 | Belize | 33.7% | 2008 | ||
11 | Qatar | 33.2% | 2008 | ||
12 | Egypt | 33.1% | 2008 | ||
13 | Saudi Arabia | 33% | 2008 | ||
14 | Bahrain | 32.9% | 2008 | ||
15 | Mexico | 32.1% | 2008 | ||
16 | Fiji | 30.6% | 2008 | ||
17 | Venezuela | 30.3% | 2008 | ||
18 | Solomon Islands | 30% | 2008 | ||
19 | Trinidad and Tobago | 29.3% | 2008 | ||
20 | Libya | 27.8% | 2008 | ||
21 | Iraq | 27% | 2008 | ||
22 | Australia | 26.8% | 2008 | ||
23 | El Salvador | 25.8% | 2008 | ||
24 | Antigua and Barbuda | 25.6% | 2008 | ||
25 | Panama | 25.4% | 2008 | ||
26 | Suriname | 25.1% | 2008 | ||
27 | Dominica | 24.9% | 2008 | ||
28 | Jamaica | 24.1% | 2008 | ||
29 | Seychelles | 23.9% | 2008 | ||
30 | Costa Rica | 23.7% | 2008 | ||
31 | Saint Vincent and the Grenadines | 23.4% | 2008 | ||
32 | Grenada | 22.5% | 2008 | ||
33 | Nicaragua | 22.2% | 2008 | ||
34 | Cuba | 21.5% | 2008 | ||
=35 | Ecuador | 21.4% | 2008 | ||
=35 | Saint Lucia | 21.4% | 2008 | ||
37 | Dominican Republic | 21.2% | 2008 | ||
38 | Oman | 20.9% | 2008 | ||
39 | Swaziland | 19.7% | 2008 | ||
40 | Guatemala | 19.2% | 2008 | ||
41 | Brazil | 18.8% | 2008 | ||
42 | Mauritius | 18.5% | 2008 | ||
43 | Honduras | 18.4% | 2008 | ||
=44 | Paraguay | 17.9% | 2008 | ||
=44 | Bolivia | 17.9% | 2008 | ||
46 | Colombia | 17.3% | 2008 | ||
47 | Guyana | 17.2% | 2008 | ||
48 | Papua New Guinea | 16.2% | 2008 | ||
49 | Algeria | 16% | 2008 | ||
50 | Yemen | 14.5% | 2008 | ||
51 | Malaysia | 14% | 2008 | ||
52 | Gabon | 13.9% | 2008 | ||
53 | Maldives | 12.9% | 2008 | ||
54 | Mauritania | 12.7% | 2008 | ||
55 | Botswana | 11.2% | 2008 | ||
56 | Equatorial Guinea | 10.6% | 2008 | ||
57 | Cameroon | 10.3% | 2008 | ||
58 | Cape Verde | 10% | 2008 | ||
59 | Djibouti | 9.4% | 2008 | ||
60 | Thailand | 8.8% | 2008 | ||
61 | Haiti | 7.9% | 2008 | ||
=62 | Ghana | 7.5% | 2008 | ||
=62 | Brunei | 7.5% | 2008 | ||
64 | Singapore | 7.1% | 2008 | ||
65 | Zimbabwe | 7% | 2008 | ||
=66 | Sierra Leone | 6.8% | 2008 | ||
=66 | Senegal | 6.8% | 2008 | ||
68 | Nigeria | 6.5% | 2008 | ||
69 | Angola | 6.4% | 2008 | ||
70 | Philippines | 6.3% | 2008 | ||
71 | Cote d'Ivoire | 6.2% | 2008 | ||
=72 | Sudan | 6% | 2008 | ||
=72 | Benin | 6% | 2008 | ||
74 | Pakistan | 5.5% | 2008 | ||
75 | Sri Lanka | 5.1% | 2008 | ||
76 | Tanzania | 5% | 2008 | ||
=77 | Mozambique | 4.9% | 2008 | ||
=77 | Guinea-Bissau | 4.9% | 2008 | ||
=79 | Liberia | 4.8% | 2008 | ||
=79 | Indonesia | 4.8% | 2008 | ||
=79 | Somalia | 4.8% | 2008 | ||
=82 | Guinea | 4.4% | 2008 | ||
=82 | Comoros | 4.4% | 2008 | ||
=84 | Malawi | 4.3% | 2008 | ||
=84 | Togo | 4.3% | 2008 | ||
=84 | Mali | 4.3% | 2008 | ||
=84 | Uganda | 4.3% | 2008 | ||
88 | Kenya | 4.2% | 2008 | ||
89 | Burma | 4% | 2008 | ||
90 | Zambia | 3.6% | 2008 | ||
91 | Chad | 2.7% | 2008 | ||
92 | Laos | 2.6% | 2008 | ||
93 | Niger | 2.4% | 2008 | ||
94 | Burkina Faso | 2.3% | 2008 | ||
95 | Cambodia | 2.1% | 2008 | ||
96 | India | 1.9% | 2008 | ||
=97 | Vietnam | 1.7% | 2008 | ||
=97 | Democratic Republic of the Congo | 1.7% | 2008 | ||
99 | Madagascar | 1.6% | 2008 | ||
100 | Eritrea | 1.5% | 2008 | ||
=101 | Ethiopia | 1.1% | 2008 | ||
=101 | Bangladesh | 1.1% | 2008 |