Number of children under 5 years of age who are overweight (modeled estimates) (million) — Value by country

Regions and income groups

Aggregates are excluded from the country ranking above so that a region can never outrank a country.

• World 35.5 million No
• Asia 16.3 million No
• Upper-middle-income economies 13.2 million No
• Least Developed Countries (LDCs) 5.6 million No
• Lower-middle-income economies 12.3 million No
• Middle Africa 1.9 million No
• Africa 9.7 million No
• Eastern Asia and South-eastern Asia 8.3 million No
• Sub-Saharan Africa 7.2 million No
• Small island developing States (SIDS) 0.5 million No
• Central Asia and Southern Asia 6.3 million No
• Eastern Asia 6.1 million No
• Southern Asia 5.7 million No
• Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs) 5.6 million No
• High-income economies 5.6 million No
• Northern America and Europe 4.7 million No
• Western Asia and Northern Africa 4.2 million No
• Latin America and the Caribbean 4.1 million No
• Low-income economies 4.1 million No
• Land Locked Developing Countries (LLDCs) 3.4 million No
• Eastern Africa 2.9 million No
• South America 2.8 million No
• Europe 2.6 million No
• Northern Africa 2.5 million No
• South-Eastern Asia 2.2 million No
• Northern America 2 million No
• Western Asia 1.8 million No
• United States of America 1.8 million No
• Western Africa 1.5 million No
• Eastern Europe 1.2 million No
• Central America 1.1 million No
• Southern Africa 0.8 million No
• Oceania 0.7 million No
• Central Asia 0.6 million No
• Western Europe 0.5 million No
• Southern Europe 0.5 million No
• Northern Europe 0.4 million No
• Oceania excluding Australia and New Zealand 0.3 million No
• Caribbean 0.2 million No