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Eurostat: Romania among EU countries with the lowest obesity rates
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Romania has one of the lowest obesity rates in the EU, at 12.9%, Eurostat data show. Across the EU, 51.7% of adults are overweight.
Romania is among the European Union countries with the lowest obesity rates among adults, according to 2025 data published by Eurostat on Friday, 4 September. Across the EU as a whole, however, more than half of people aged 18 and over are overweight.
In 2025, 16.3% of people aged 18 and over in the European Union were obese, while another 35.4% were classified as pre-obese, according to data published by Eurostat.
Together, the two categories accounted for 51.7% of the EU adult population, meaning that more than half of adults had a body mass index corresponding to overweight.
Romania has the third-lowest obesity rate in the EU
The highest obesity rates were recorded in Malta, where 26.6% of adults fell into this category, followed by Latvia, at 24.6%, and Finland, at 23.2%.
At the opposite end of the ranking were Italy, with an obesity rate of 7%, Greece, with 12.8%, and Romania, with 12.9%. Romania therefore had the third-lowest rate among the EU countries included in the analysis.
Obesity figures should, however, be distinguished from the overall prevalence of overweight. The latter includes both people with obesity and those classified as pre-obese.
Men are more frequently overweight than women
Eurostat data also show important differences by sex. The obesity rate in the EU was 17.4% among men and 15.3% among women.
The difference was even more pronounced for pre-obesity: 41.9% of men were in this category, compared with 29.3% of women.
By contrast, underweight was more common among women: 2.9%, compared with 1% among men.
How Eurostat defines obesity and pre-obesity
The classification used by Eurostat is based on body mass index (BMI), calculated as body weight in kilograms divided by the square of height in metres.
Among adults aged 18 and over, a BMI of 30 or higher is classified as obesity. A BMI between 25 and below 30 is defined by Eurostat as pre-obesity, while the term “overweight” includes both categories. A BMI below 18.5 is classified as underweight.
The indicator is part of the dataset used by the European Union to monitor sustainable development goals related to nutrition, health and population well-being.
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