Key Market Indicators
By 2026, the prevalence of overweight adults in Mozambique is expected to reach 30%. This is a 0.9 percentage point increase on average each year since 2021, when 28.3% of the adult population was overweight. Since 1980, the demand for overweight adults in Mozambique has grown by 1.4 percentage points annually. In 2021, Mozambique was ranked 160th in the world for the prevalence of overweight adults; this was overtaken by Equatorial Guinea, which had 28.3% of its adult population overweight. The Marshall Islands, Tuvalu, and Kiribati were the next highest ranked countries, in second, third, and fourth place respectively.
