Prevalence of risk factors for NCDs in adults

  Daily smoking Physical inactivity Raised blood Pressure Raised blood glucose Overweight Obesity Raised cholesterol
(% of adult population) (% of adult population) (% of adult population) (% of adult population) (% of adult population) (% of adult population) (% of adult population)
2008 2008 2008 2008 2008 2008 2008
Antigua and Barbuda              
Australia 16.8 40.3 36.4 9.4 63.7 26.8 57.4
The Bahamas              
Bangladesh 21.2 4.7 8.4 7.6 1.1
Barbados 4.9 48.1 43.2 14.6 69.7 34.7  
Belize 3.9 31.7 9.1 69.8 33.7
Botswana 10.1 32.6 40.8   31.7 11.2  
Brunei Darussalam
Cameroon 5.8 39.1 36.9 8.8 35.4 10.3  
Canada 13.5 35.7 33.6 63.2 26.2 56.2
Cyprus   56.9 40.5   58.8 25.5  
Dominica 4.9 25.5 46.8 18.2 56.5 24.9 37.9
Fiji 8.4   38.8 13.8 65 30.6 52.5
The Gambia 16.7 21.7 41.1 9.6 26.7 7.9 19.9
Ghana 4.4 16.1 36.4 8.8 28.9 7.5 17.6
Grenada
Guyana              
India 13.9 14 32.5 10 11 1.9 27.1
Jamaica 12.3 47.7 39.9 11.4 55.3 24.1 30.4
Kenya 9.3 15.4 37 18.7 4.2
Kiribati 67.4 49.8 33.7 22.4 80.7 46 34.8
Lesotho 37.3 14.6
Malawi 10.9 9.8 43.4 5.4 20.1 4.3 23.5
Malaysia 21.5 60.5 34.7 10.5 44.2 14
Maldives 22.8 38.9   6.2 35.4 12.9  
Malta 21.2 72.5 43.6 12 64.3 28.8 61.2
Mauritius 13 38.1   10.4 50.1 18.5  
Mozambique 7 6.6 44.9 21.1 4.9 25
Namibia 14.1 56.3 43.4   31.1 9.5  
Nauru 47.5 49.4 39.6 12.5 92.9 71.1 44.7
New Zealand 20.7 48.1 36.8   65.8 28.3 57.7
Nigeria 4.6 42.8 8.5 26.8 6.5 16.1
Pakistan 15 38.4 35.3 11.7 23 5.5 30.1
Papua New Guinea 40.9 16.1 27 13.3 48.3 16.2 36.8
Rwanda         19.9 4.3  
St Kitts and Nevis 5 40.6 46.2 75.9 40.7
St Lucia 17.4       52.9 21.4  
St Vincent and the Grenadines 10.5
Samoa 36.2 49.7 40 21.1 84.6 54.1 33.7
Seychelles 12.4 23.4 44.2 12.9 56.8 23.9 57.1
Sierra Leone 23.1 16.1 44   26.9 6.8  
Singapore 14.5 36.8 6.9 30.2 7.1 60
Solomon Islands 28.8 42.6 30.8 14.9 65.2 30 32.4
South Africa 14 51.1 42.2 10.6 65.4 31.3 34
Sri Lanka 10.6 26 39.2 8.8 21.9 5.1  
Swaziland 5.6 66.5 45.3 19.7
Tonga 22 41.4 40.1 17.5 87 57.6 48.7
Trinidad and Tobago 13.1 38.9 63.8 29.3
Tuvalu 32            
Uganda 6.8 19.9 4.3
United Kingdom 17.3 66.5 43.5 8.3 64.2 26.9 65.6
United Republic of Tanzania 7.9 39.2 7.2 22.1 5 22.1
Vanuatu 12.3   41.8 8 62.4 27.5  
Zambia 10.1 15.5 40.1 6.1 15.7 3.6 26.2