Adult obesity prevalence: female (age-standardized, %)

RecordSTO-7WH75HJEMH-T4X7MVXHD9-4CB13W

31%

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Papua New Guinea · 2023

Adult obesity prevalence: female in Papua New Guinea (age-standardized, %) was 31% in 2023 (WHO).

Original source

Publisher: WHO
Authority tier: T1 Official
Report: WHO adult obesity prevalence (age-standardized, female)
Locator: NCD_BMI_30A: {"Dim1":"SEX_FMLE","SpatialDim":"PNG","SpatialDimType":"COUNTRY","TimeDim":"2023"}
Retrieved: 2 Oct 2026
Status: Verified

Dataset evidence (generated description)

Dataset evidence (generated): NCD_BMI_30A, PG, 2023-01-01 to 2023-12-31: 30.96889 percent (scale 1).

Checked: the figure 31%matches the queried row in the pinned dataset response. If it does not match, the extraction is wrong and we want to know.

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World Health Organization. (2023). WHO adult obesity prevalence (age-standardized, female). Retrieved October 2, 2026, from https://ghoapi.azureedge.net/api/NCD_BMI_30A?$filter=SpatialDimType%20eq%20%27COUNTRY%27%20and%20Dim1%20eq%20%27SEX_FMLE%27. Via StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_7WH75HJEMHT4X7MVXHD94CB13W

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MLA: World Health Organization. "WHO adult obesity prevalence (age-standardized, female)." 2023, https://ghoapi.azureedge.net/api/NCD_BMI_30A?$filter=SpatialDimType%20eq%20%27COUNTRY%27%20and%20Dim1%20eq%20%27SEX_FMLE%27. Accessed 2 Oct. 2026 via StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_7WH75HJEMHT4X7MVXHD94CB13W.
Chicago: World Health Organization. "WHO adult obesity prevalence (age-standardized, female)." 2023. https://ghoapi.azureedge.net/api/NCD_BMI_30A?$filter=SpatialDimType%20eq%20%27COUNTRY%27%20and%20Dim1%20eq%20%27SEX_FMLE%27. Accessed October 2, 2026. Cited from StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_7WH75HJEMHT4X7MVXHD94CB13W.
BibTeX: @misc{who2023adult4cb13w, author = {{World Health Organization}}, title = {WHO adult obesity prevalence (age-standardized, female)}, year = {2023}, howpublished = {StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org}, url = {https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_7WH75HJEMHT4X7MVXHD94CB13W}, note = {Original source: https://ghoapi.azureedge.net/api/NCD\_BMI\_30A?\$filter=SpatialDimType\%20eq\%20\%27COUNTRY\%27\%20and\%20Dim1\%20eq\%20\%27SEX\_FMLE\%27. Accessed October 2, 2026.} }

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Primary source

Publisher: World Health Organization · homepage ↗
Authority tier: Tier 1 · Multilateral Official
Report: WHO adult obesity prevalence (age-standardized, female)
Type: Dataset
Evidence: Dataset response (generated description)
Dataset: NCD_BMI_30A
Version: 2026-05-27
Methodology: Publisher methodology ↗
Response SHA-256: c9dd80b0e99f06e683d7841b89f5ffea97d0fc5c6712e35ab2041d83707c6e27
Response retrieved: 2 October 2026
Published: —
Locator: NCD_BMI_30A: {"Dim1":"SEX_FMLE","SpatialDim":"PNG","SpatialDimType":"COUNTRY","TimeDim":"2023"}
Retrieved: 2 October 2026
Link status: Reachable (HTTP 200)
Report licence: See source

Verification

Status: Verified
Review protocol: dataset:raw-row-check-v1
Checked on: 2 October 2026
Last revision: 2 October 2026
Permanent URL: /stat/stat_7WH75HJEMHT4X7MVXHD94CB13W

Same indicator, other countries

2023 figures for the same indicator, ranked highest first.

Country or region	Value	Source	Details
Samoa	75.7%	WHO	Open record
Nauru	71.2%	WHO	Open record
Egypt	56.5%	WHO	Open record
Bahamas	56.1%	WHO	Open record
Kiribati	52.8%	WHO	Open record
Belize	52.8%	WHO	Open record
French Polynesia	50.4%	WHO	Open record
Qatar	49.7%	WHO	Open record
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	49.4%	WHO	Open record
Jamaica	49.2%	WHO	Open record
Barbados	49.2%	WHO	Open record
Iraq	47.2%	WHO	Open record
Puerto Rico (US)	47.1%	WHO	Open record
Saint Lucia	47%	WHO	Open record
South Africa	46.9%	WHO	Open record

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Record last modified 2 October 2026. Value type: estimate. Update cadence: annual. This page is permanently addressable at statorigin.org/stat/stat_7WH75HJEMHT4X7MVXHD94CB13W.