Adults with obesity by country, 2019
People aged 15 and over with a body mass index of 30 or more, based on self-reported height and weight in the European Health Interview Survey, which runs about every five years.
30 places ranked for 2019. Highest: Malta (28.1%). Lowest: Romania (10.5%). The median is 17.0%.
Highest 10
Lowest 10
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Source: Eurostat.
In short
- Among the 30 countries with a value for 2019, the highest is Malta (28.1%) and the lowest Romania (10.5%).
- Half of the countries are above 17.0% and half below.
- The figure for the European Union was 16.0% in 2019, against 14.9% in 2014 (+1.1 percentage points).
Full ranking
| # | Country | Value | Period | Relative size |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Malta | 28.1% | 2019 | |
| 2 | Hungary | 23.9% | 2019 | |
| 3 | Croatia | 22.6% | 2019 | |
| 4 | Latvia | 22.3% | 2019 | |
| 5 | Iceland | 21.7% | 2019 | |
| 6 | Estonia | 21.1% | 2019 | |
| 7 | Türkiye | 21.1% | 2019 | |
| 8 | Finland | 20.3% | 2019 | |
| 9 | Slovenia | 19.4% | 2019 | |
| 10 | Czechia | 19.3% | 2019 | |
| 11 | Slovakia | 19.3% | 2019 | |
| 12 | Germany | 18.5% | 2019 | |
| 13 | Poland | 18.5% | 2019 | |
| 14 | Lithuania | 18.3% | 2019 | |
| 15 | Portugal | 17.2% | 2019 | |
| 16 | Serbia | 16.8% | 2019 | |
| 17 | Austria | 16.7% | 2019 | |
| 18 | Greece | 16.2% | 2019 | |
| 19 | Luxembourg | 16.1% | 2019 | |
| 20 | Belgium | 15.9% | 2019 | |
| 21 | Denmark | 15.9% | 2019 | |
| 22 | Spain | 15.4% | 2019 | |
| 23 | Sweden | 14.7% | 2019 | |
| 24 | Cyprus | 14.6% | 2019 | |
| 25 | France | 14.4% | 2019 | |
| 26 | Netherlands | 14.1% | 2019 | |
| 27 | Norway | 13.8% | 2019 | |
| 28 | Bulgaria | 13.2% | 2019 | |
| 29 | Italy | 11.4% | 2019 | |
| 30 | Romania | 10.5% | 2019 |
Places are ordered from the highest to the lowest value. Group medians on this site are the middle value of the members with data for the same year; they are not official aggregates.
How this ranking works
Every country is ranked on its value for 2019, the latest period that most countries have, so all values are for the same point in time. Countries without a value for 2019 are left out. Groups and aggregates such as the European Union are not ranked. Values are as published by Eurostat; the ranking is a plain ordering from the highest to the lowest value and says nothing about whether a high value is good or bad.
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