
Percent of overweight or obese Canadian adults based on BMI 2015-2021
adults in Canada who were obese, while the number of adults who were overweight was over ten million.
In 2021, around 29 percent of adults aged 18 years and older in Canada were obese, while 36 percent were overweight. Although the percentage of overweight adults stayed about the same from 2015 to 2020, the percentage of obese adults in the same time period increased by about three percentage points. In 2020, there were around 8.3 million