Obesity is commonly measured using the Body Mass Index (BMI), with a BMI over 30 considered obese. According to data from the World Health Organization, obesity rates have more than tripled from 5 ...

Countries with the Highest Obesity Rates in the World. Data on the countries with the highest obesity rates in the world can be seen from the results of the NCD Risk Factor Collaboration (NCD-RisC) ...

For more countries, head on over to 5 Most Obese Developed Countries in the World. While not commonly thought of this way, obesity is a disease that is also one of the deadliest in the world.

In this piece, we will take a look at 25 countries with the highest rates of obesity. If you want to skip our analysis of how obesity affects productivity and some drugs that are quite promising ...

In high-income countries, such as the U.S., the rate of increase in BMI has actually been slowing, even beginning to level off. But that improvement masks new dangers.

Tonga and Naura followed closely behind, with obesity affecting roughly 70% of people living in these island countries. Over the last 20 years, obesity rates around the world have significantly ...

Prior to the update, BMI charts for children ages 2 to 19 had been published in 2000 and were based on data from 1963 to 1980 when obesity rates in children were much lower.

In 50 countries, the double burden shifted to become obesity-dominated from underweight-predominant. Again, by 2022, over 90% of the combined burden was due to obesity in 34% of countries for ...

According to the report, “22 states have adult obesity rates above 30 percent, 45 states have rates above 25 percent, and every state is above 20 percent.” By way of contrast, no state back in ...

According to the latest data from the World Population Review (WPR) and the Global Obesity Observatory (GOO), American Samoa tops the list as the country with the most obese people in the world.

A version of this article appears in print on , Section B, Page 3 of the New York edition with the headline: In Poorer Countries, Obesity Can Be Seen By Banks as a Signal of Creditworthiness.