World Obesity Rates 2009 - 2013

The following table lists the countries with the percentage of the population with a Body Mass Index of over 25 considered to be overweight that also includes those that are considered obese. While most people oversimplify the issue of weight gain, did we really miss the bus on understanding the true causes of weight gain such as insulin resistance?

country	Overweight population percent (BMI>25)
American Samoa	93.5
Anguilla	NA
Antigua and Barbuda	NA
Armenia	NA
Aruba	NA
Australia	49
Austria	42
Azerbaijan	NA
Bahrain	61.2
Barbados	60.4
Belarus	NA
Belgium	44.1
Bosnia and Herzegovina	62.9
Brazil	40.6
British Cameroons	NA
British Virgin Islands
Bulgaria	46
Burundi	NA
Canada	59.1
Cayman Islands	NA
Chile	59.7
China	18.9
Colombia	46
Cook Islands
Croatia	61.4
Cuba	42.5
Cyprus	46
Czech Republic	51.7
Czechoslovakia
Denmark	41.7
Dominica
Dutch New Guinea
Egypt	66
Eritrea	13.7
Estonia	42.8
Ethiopia
Ethiopia PDR
Federal Republic of Germany
Federation of Malaya
Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland
Federation of South Arabia
Federation of West Indies
Fiji	56.2
Finland	48.8
France	49.3
French Polynesia	73.7
Gambia	10.4
Georgia
German Democratic Republic
Germany	66.5
Ghana	11.2
Gilbert and Ellice islands
Greece	57.1
Grenada
Hong-Kong
Hungary	53.2
Iceland	48.2
India	4.5
Indonesia	13.4
Iran (Islamic Republic of)	42.8
Ireland	56.8
Israel	61.9
Italy	44
Jamaica
Japan	23.2
Jordan	57
Kazakhstan
Kiribati	81.5
Kuwait	64.2
Kyrgyzstan	35
Lao People's Democratic Republic	8.5
Latvia	45.2
Lesotho	36.6
Lithuania	52
Luxembourg	35
Macao
Malawi
Malaysia	47.9
Malta	62.3
Marshall Islands
Mauritius	35.7
Mayotte
Micronesia (Federated States of)
Moldova, Republic of
Mongolia	31.6
Montserrat
Morocco	35.4
Netherlands	41.8
New Zealand	62.7
Niue
North Borneo
Northern Mariana Islands
Norway	44
Occupied Palestinian Territory
Pakistan	14.4
Palau
Panama	67.4
People's Democratic Republic of Yemen
Peru	55.4
Philippines	24
Poland	52.2
Portugal	53.5
Republic of Korea	32.1
Romania	41.7
Ruanda-Urundi
Russian Federation
Rwanda
Saint Kitts and Nevis
Saint Lucia
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
Saint-Kitts-Nevis-Anguilla
Sarawak
Saudi Arabia	72.5
Senegal
Senegambia
Serbia and Montenegro	54
Seychelles	60.1
Singapore	32.5
Slovakia	46.7
Slovenia
South Africa	45.1
South Arabia
South Vietnam
Spain	53.4
Sweden	45
Switzerland	37.3
Syrian Arab Republic
Tajikistan
Thailand	31.5
The former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia	60.4
Trinidad and Tobago
Trust Territories of the Pacific Islands
Tunisia	43.8
Turkey	56.4
Turkmenistan
Turks and Caicos Islands
Tuvalu
Ukraine
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
United Arab Republic
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland	61
United States of America	66.9
Uruguay	52.4
Uzbekistan
Vanuatu	48.8
Viet Nam	5.2
Vietnam, Democratic republic of
Yemen
Yugoslavia
Zambia
Zimbabwe	37.3

Source: World Health Organization

Also see

• Obesity in OECD Countries
• United States Obesity
• Global obesity rates