Overweight: overweight adolescents aged 10 to 19 by country
Countries reporting
17
Highest
21.84
Serbia
Lowest
16.37
Morocco
Median
18.97
Years covered
18
2008–2025
Data points
504
What the numbers show
Overweight: overweight adolescents aged 10 to 19 is currently reported for 17 countries. The highest value is 21.84 in Serbia; the lowest is 16.37 in Morocco.
The median across all reporting countries is 18.97, and the mean is 18.97.
Over the past decade 15 countries rose and 1 fell. The largest increase was in Romania (up 21.8%), and the largest decrease in Serbia (down 1.4%).
Overweight: overweight adolescents aged 10 to 19: full country ranking
| # | Country | Latest | Year | 10-year change | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Serbia | 21.84 | 2025 | down 1.4% | rising |
| 2 | Puerto Rico | 20.81 | 2025 | up 4.8% | rising |
| 3 | Seychelles | 20.31 | 2025 | unchanged | rising |
| 4 | Montserrat | 20.06 | 2025 | up 0.3% | rising |
| 5 | Malta | 19.67 | 2025 | up 7.0% | rising |
| 6 | Spain | 19.36 | 2025 | up 6.8% | rising |
| 6 | Brazil | 19.36 | 2025 | up 12.0% | rising |
| 8 | Peru | 19.18 | 2025 | up 10.9% | rising |
| 9 | Madagascar | 18.97 | 2025 | up 10.3% | rising |
| 10 | Panama | 18.56 | 2025 | up 14.0% | rising |
| 11 | Albania | 18.29 | 2025 | up 12.4% | rising |
| 12 | Sweden | 18.25 | 2025 | up 13.6% | rising |
| 13 | Romania | 18.18 | 2025 | up 21.8% | rising |
| 14 | Bosnia and Herzegovina | 18.12 | 2025 | up 19.6% | rising |
| 15 | Armenia | 18.08 | 2025 | up 1.2% | rising |
| 16 | Tonga | 17.04 | 2025 | up 13.2% | rising |
| 17 | Morocco | 16.37 | 2025 | up 15.7% | rising |
Regions and income groups
Aggregates are excluded from the country ranking above so that a region can never outrank a country.
- Ceará 21.17
- Rio Grande do Norte 21.01
- São Paulo 20.65
- Amapá 19.99
- Roraima 19.69
- Paraíba 19.6
- Rio de Janeiro 19.2
- Goiás 19.15
- Acre 18.41
- Distrito Federal 18.11
- Piauí 17.21