Overweight and obesity rate Canada 2015-2024| ��ƽ��

Percentage of Canadian adults that were overweight or obese based on BMI from 2015 to 2024

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August 2025

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Region

Canada

Survey time period

2015 to 2024

Number of respondents

65,000 respondents

Age group

18 years and older

Supplementary notes

All figures are annual estimates.
Body mass index (BMI) is a method of classifying body weight according to health risk. According to the World Health Organization (WHO) and Health Canada guidelines, health risk levels are associated with each of the following BMI categories: normal weight = least health risk; underweight and overweight = increased health risk; obese, class I = high health risk; obese, class II = very high health risk; obese, class III = extremely high health risk.

Adapted from Statistics Canada, statcan.gc.ca, 2015 to 2024. This does not constitute an endorsement by Statistics Canada of this product.

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In 2024, almost ** percent of adults aged 18 years and older in Canada were obese, while **** percent were overweight. Although the percentage of overweight adults stayed about the same from 2015 to 2024, the percentage of obese adults in the same time period increased by about **** percentage points. In 2024, there were almost ****million adults in Canada who were obese, while the number of adults who were overweight was almost ** ��ǲ�.��

Adolescent obesity

The share of Canadian adolescents who are overweight or obese has slowly increased since 2005. In 2022, around ** percent of adolescents aged 12 to 17 years were either overweight or obese. The total number of obese or overweight Canadian adolescents in 2022 was around *** thousand. By 2030, it is estimated that Canada will have over *** million children who are obese.

Deaths from obesity

Being overweight or obese are major health problems that can result in early death. In 2021, it was estimated that around percent of all deaths in Canada could be attributed to obesity. At that time, there were around **deaths per 100,000 population in Canada that could be attributed to obesity. Diabetes, which is also related to obesity, accounted for about *** percent of all deaths in Canada in 2023, making it the seventh leading cause of death that year.