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Mauritania: Overweight among adults, BMI ≥ 25 kg/m2

48percent · 2024+17.4% since 2014

Overweight among adults, BMI ≥ 25 kg/m2 (age-standardized estimate) (%). WHO Global Health Observatory indicator NCD_BMI_25A. Annual figures for Mauritania from 1980 to 2024.

19852024

Every year

YearValue (percent)Note
202448
202347.3
202246.6
202145.9
202045.1
201944.4
201843.7
201743
201642.3
201541.6
201440.9
201340.3
201239.6
201139
201038.4
200937.7
200837
200736.2
200635.3
200534.3
200433.3
200332.2
200231.1
200130
200028.9
199927.8
199826.8
199725.7
199624.7
199523.8
199422.9
199322
199221.1
199120.3
199019.5
198918.7
198818
198717.3
198616.5
198515.9
198415.2
198314.6
198214
198113.4
198012.8

Source

Published by World Health Organization. Licence: CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO. Retrieved 2026-11-07.

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World Health Organization (2026). Overweight among adults, BMI ≥ 25 kg/m2. Interva. https://interva.co/dataset/who-ncd-bmi-25a (accessed 2026-11-09). catalog snapshot 2026-11-07.

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