Obesity in Arabic-Speaking Countries

Table 1

Ranking of the prevalence of obesity in Arabic and non-Arabic-speaking countries. The data are separated for males and females aged between 15 and 100 years, using WHO estimates for 2010. Arabic-speaking countries are shown in bold.

	Country	Male	Country	Female
	USA	44%	Kuwait	55%
	Greece	30%	USA	48%
	Mexico	30%	Egypt	48%
	Kuwait	30%	UAE	42%
	UAE	25%	Mexico	41%
	UK	24%	Bahrain	38%
	Saudi	23%	Jordan	38%
	Egypt	22%	Saudi	36%
	Bahrain	21%	Tunisia	33%
	Jordan	20%	Qatar	32%
	Qatar	19%	Lebanon	27%
	Israel	18%	Mauritania	27%
	Spain	17%	Greece	26%
	Lebanon	15%	UK	26%
	Belgium	15%	Israel	26%
	Italy	14%	Syria	25%
	Libya	12%	Libya	25%
	Syria	12%	Morocco	23%
	Iraq	8%	Iraq	19%
	Tunisia	8%	Spain	17%
	Oman	8%	Oman	17%
	Algeria	6%	Algeria	16%
	Mauritania	5%	Italy	14%
	Morocco	4%	Belgium	11%
	Yemen	2%	Sudan	7%
	Sudan	2%	Somalia	3%
	Somalia	1%	Yemen	2%