Prevalence Of Overweight, Female (% Of Female Adults) 2014

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Topic: Health: Nutrition
Definition: Prevalence of overweight female adults is the percentage of females ages 18 and over whose Body Mass Index (BMI) is more than 25 kg/m2. Body Mass Index (BMI) is a simple index of weight-for-height, or the weight in kilograms divided by the square of the height in meters.
Source: World Health Organization, Global Health Observatory Data Repository (http://apps.who.int/ghodata/).

List of countries ordered by: Prevalence of overweight, female (% of female adults)

	Country	Prevalence of overweight, female (% of female adults)
1	Tonga	82.50 %
2	Samoa	82.30 %
3	Kiribati	78.30 %
4	Micronesia (Fed. States of)	78.00 %
5	Qatar	75.10 %
6	Kuwait	73.80 %
7	United Arab Emirates	72.40 %
8	Saudi Arabia	70.80 %
9	Egypt	70.20 %
10	Jordan	70.10 %
11	Bahrain	69.40 %
12	Libya	68.40 %
13	Turkey	68.40 %
14	Fiji	67.50 %
15	Lebanon	67.20 %
16	Bahamas	67.10 %
17	Oman	66.00 %
18	Antigua and Barbuda	65.80 %
19	Mexico	65.20 %
20	Trinidad and Tobago	64.50 %
21	Tunisia	64.30 %
22	Iran	64.20 %
23	South Africa	64.10 %
24	Panama	63.80 %
25	Iraq	63.70 %
26	Venezuela	63.70 %
27	Jamaica	63.40 %
28	Chile	63.10 %
29	United States of America	62.90 %
30	Barbados	62.80 %
31	Suriname	62.60 %
32	Grenada	61.70 %
33	Syrian Arab Republic	61.70 %
34	Costa Rica	61.50 %
35	Peru	61.50 %
36	Cuba	61.40 %
37	Algeria	61.30 %
38	Vanuatu	61.00 %
39	Guyana	60.90 %
40	Uruguay	60.60 %
41	Saint Lucia	60.50 %
42	Canada	59.90 %
43	Morocco	59.80 %
44	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	59.80 %
45	El Salvador	59.80 %
46	New Zealand	59.60 %
47	Argentina	59.60 %
48	Belize	59.00 %
49	Dominican Republic	59.00 %
50	Malta	58.50 %
51	United Kingdom	58.50 %
52	Israel	58.20 %
53	Ecuador	58.10 %
54	Colombia	58.00 %
55	Australia	57.60 %
56	Guatemala	57.50 %
57	Seychelles	57.30 %
58	Bolivia	57.30 %
59	Azerbaijan	57.20 %
60	Nicaragua	57.10 %
61	Solomon Islands	56.20 %
62	Honduras	56.10 %
63	Lithuania	56.00 %
64	Papua New Guinea	55.70 %
65	Kazakhstan	55.50 %
66	Botswana	55.40 %
67	Cyprus	55.40 %
68	Greece	55.20 %
69	Ireland	55.00 %
70	Russian Federation	54.80 %
71	Spain	54.60 %
72	Swaziland	54.50 %
73	Turkmenistan	53.70 %
74	Georgia	53.40 %
75	Italy	53.20 %
76	Armenia	53.20 %
77	Belarus	53.10 %
78	Latvia	53.10 %
79	Brazil	53.00 %
80	Lesotho	52.40 %
81	Poland	52.10 %
82	Czech Republic	52.10 %
83	Norway	52.10 %
84	Ukraine	51.50 %
85	France	51.50 %
86	Paraguay	51.30 %
87	Uzbekistan	50.70 %
88	Belgium	50.50 %
89	Namibia	50.50 %
90	Bulgaria	49.80 %
91	Mauritius	49.60 %
92	Zimbabwe	49.60 %
93	Portugal	49.60 %
94	Romania	49.50 %
95	Slovenia	49.50 %
96	Slovakia	49.40 %
97	Estonia	49.20 %
98	Yemen	49.00 %
99	Iceland	48.90 %
100	Sweden	48.90 %
101	Croatia	48.70 %
102	Finland	48.60 %
103	Mongolia	48.60 %
104	Germany	48.60 %
105	Hungary	48.50 %
106	Netherlands	48.50 %
107	Luxembourg	48.10 %
108	Kyrgyzstan	47.90 %
109	Montenegro	47.60 %
110	Austria	47.30 %
111	Switzerland	47.20 %
112	TFYR Macedonia	47.20 %
113	Republic of Moldova	47.10 %
114	Denmark	46.70 %
115	Tajikistan	46.50 %
116	Serbia	45.60 %
117	Gabon	45.50 %
118	Albania	45.40 %
119	Haiti	45.30 %
120	Equatorial Guinea	44.60 %
121	Brunei Darussalam	44.10 %
122	Bosnia and Herzegovina	44.10 %
123	Ghana	42.60 %
124	Cabo Verde	40.70 %
125	Cameroon	40.30 %
126	Sao Tome and Principe	40.10 %
127	Nigeria	39.60 %
128	Malaysia	39.10 %
129	Côte d'Ivoire	37.40 %
130	Zambia	37.00 %
131	Congo	36.70 %
132	Gambia	35.90 %
133	Mauritania	35.70 %
134	Senegal	35.30 %
135	Benin	35.20 %
136	Djibouti	35.10 %
137	Angola	34.60 %
138	Kenya	34.00 %
139	Maldives	33.90 %
140	Sierra Leone	33.80 %
141	Togo	33.60 %
142	Liberia	33.30 %
143	Thailand	33.10 %
144	China	33.10 %
145	Comoros	32.70 %
146	Tanzania	32.10 %
147	Guinea-Bissau	31.70 %
148	Guinea	31.50 %
149	Mali	31.10 %
150	Sri Lanka	30.70 %
151	Chad	30.60 %
152	Republic of Korea	30.20 %
153	Malawi	29.10 %
154	LATIN AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEAN	28.95 %
155	Bhutan	28.50 %
156	Uganda	28.50 %
157	Singapore	28.30 %
158	Indonesia	28.30 %
159	Mozambique	27.90 %
160	Burkina Faso	27.80 %
161	D.R. Congo	27.70 %
162	Madagascar	27.70 %
163	Rwanda	27.10 %
164	Philippines	26.90 %
165	Least developed countries	26.78 %
166	Central African Republic	26.70 %
167	Pakistan	26.00 %
168	Niger	25.70 %
169	Somalia	25.30 %
170	Eritrea	25.30 %
171	Ethiopia	24.20 %
172	Burundi	23.40 %
173	Myanmar	23.30 %
174	Nepal	22.20 %
175	Laos	22.20 %
176	Dem. People's Republic of Korea	22.10 %
177	India	21.70 %
178	Cambodia	20.80 %
179	Viet Nam	20.70 %
180	Bangladesh	20.40 %
181	Afghanistan	20.20 %
182	Japan	18.80 %
183	Timor-Leste	17.10 %

Source: Health Nutrition and Population Statistics - World Bank - Downloaded in August 2017

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