Overweight/ Obesity prevalence among adult population

Indicator

Overweight/ Obesity prevalence among the adult population

Definition

Percentage of defined population with a body mass index (BMI) of 30 kg/m2 or higher.

Calculation

Reference

The STEPS Survey (2016)

Provincial data

Overweight/ Obesity prevalence among adult population by Province

Raw data

wdt_ID	Place	Point estimate	Lower Limit	Upper Limit
1	Mazandaran	32.6	29.8	35.6
2	Ardabil	29.8	25.6	34.3
3	Semnan	29.4	25.4	33.8
4	Golestan	29.3	25.3	33.7
5	West Azerbaijan	28.2	25.6	30.9
6	Guilan	27.0	24.2	29.9
7	Alborz	26.6	23.9	29.5
8	Qazvin	25.5	21.6	29.9
9	Khuzestan	24.8	22.7	27.1
10	East Azerbaijan	24.3	22.0	26.8
11	Yazd	24.0	20.9	27.5
12	Kurdistan	23.8	20.3	27.7
13	Country	22.7	22.2	23.2
14	Lorestan	22.6	19.3	26.2
15	Isfahan	22.6	20.7	24.5
16	Markazi	22.2	18.9	26.0
17	Tehran	22.1	21.0	23.4
18	Hamadan	21.4	18.3	24.7
19	Kermanshah	21.2	18.4	24.3
20	Kohgiluyeh & Boyer-Ahmad	21.1	17.6	25.1
21	fars	21.0	19.1	23.0
22	Zanjan	20.8	18.0	23.8
23	Razavi Khorasan	20.5	18.8	22.2
24	Chaharmahal & Bakhtiari	19.7	16.7	23.0
25	Bushehr	19.3	15.2	24.0
26	North Khorasan	18.5	15.6	21.9
27	South Khorasan	17.8	14.7	21.3
28	Kerman	16.7	14.5	19.1
29	Ilam	13.1	10.2	16.7
30	Hormozgan	12.4	9.9	15.4
31	Sistan & Baluchestan	11.7	9.6	14.1
32	Qom	0.0	0.0	0.0

*Qom province didn’t participate in the STEPS Survey (2016)

By urban-rural

Overweight/ Obesity prevalence among adult population by Urban-Rural Disaggregation

Raw data

wdt_ID	Disaggregation	Point estimate	Lower Limit	Upper Limit
1	Urban	24.1	23.5	24.7
2	Country	22.7	22.2	23.2
3	Rural	19.5	18.6	20.4

By gender

Overweight/ Obesity prevalence among adult population Hypertension by Gender

Raw data

wdt_ID	Disaggregation	Point estimate	Lower Limit	Upper Limit
1	Male	20.4	15.3	14.7
2	Country	22.7	22.2	23.2
3	Female	29.8	29.0	30.5

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