via calorielab:
Colorado is the least fat state in the U.S.A., its obesity percentage is only 22.6% and its overweight percentage is well below 60% at 58.7%.West Virginia on the other hand is 38.1% obese which is still a good deal under 40%, and its overweight percentage is barely over 70% at 71.7%.
“For the past three years the number of states getting slimmer have approximately doubled each year, good news, with 15 slimmer states this year. Kansas led with -3.0, a number so surprising that we went back into the raw data to double-check it. Among the other states getting slimmer were Oregon and Wyoming (-1.3), Idaho (-1.2), and Oklahoma (-1.1).”
“Because of the overall incremental increase in obesity, CalorieLab this year shifted the color coding used in its map two percentage points higher to maintain an approximately equal number of states per color. This means that this year’s map cannot be directly compared to previous years’ maps.”
| 2017 Rank |
2019 Rank |
State | % Obese | % Obese or Overweight | 3-Year Obesity Average |
% Obesity Change |
Ranking Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 | West Virginia | 38.1 | 71.7 | 36.8 | 1.2 | 0 |
| 2 | 2 | Mississippi | 37.3 | 69.9 | 36.4 | 0.9 | 0 |
| 3 | 3 | Louisiana | 36.2 | 70.0 | 36.2 | 0.7 | 0 |
| 5 | 4 | Alabama | 36.3 | 70.2 | 35.9 | 0.9 | 1 |
| 8 | 5 | Oklahoma | 36.5 | 70.6 | 35.2 | 1.8 | 3 |
| 4 | 6 | Arkansas | 35.0 | 70.5 | 35.1 | -0.3 | -2 |
| 6 | 7 | Kentucky | 34.3 | 67.8 | 34.4 | 1.3 | -1 |
| 13 | 8 | Iowa | 36.4 | 70.1 | 34.3 | 2.7 | 5 |
| 7 | 9 | Tennessee | 32.8 | 68.3 | 33.3 | 0.8 | -2 |
| 10 | 9 | Kansas | 32.3 | 67.2 | 33.3 | 0.5 | 1 |
| 12 | 11 | South Carolina | 34.1 | 68.1 | 32.9 | 1.0 | 1 |
| 9 | 12 | Texas | 33.0 | 69.4 | 32.7 | 0.5 | -3 |
| 10 | 13 | Indiana | 33.6 | 68.0 | 32.4 | 0.4 | -3 |
| 15 | 13 | Missouri | 32.5 | 67.8 | 32.4 | 1.1 | 2 |
| 18 | 15 | Nebraska | 32.8 | 69.0 | 32.1 | 1.3 | 3 |
| 13 | 15 | North Dakota | 33.1 | 69.4 | 32.1 | 0.5 | -2 |
| 23 | 17 | Alaska | 34.2 | 66.7 | 31.8 | 1.5 | 6 |
| 17 | 17 | Ohio | 33.8 | 68.0 | 31.8 | 0.6 | 0 |
| 15 | 19 | Michigan | 32.3 | 67.2 | 31.7 | 0.8 | -4 |
| 19 | 20 | Wisconsin | 32.0 | 67.3 | 31.4 | 0.4 | -1 |
| 21 | 21 | Illinois | 31.1 | 65.8 | 31.3 | 0.6 | 0 |
| 19 | 22 | Georgia | 31.6 | 65.3 | 31.2 | 0.4 | -3 |
| 26 | 23 | South Dakota | 31.9 | 67.7 | 31.1 | 1.0 | 3 |
| 22 | 23 | North Carolina | 32.1 | 66.9 | 31.1 | 1.2 | -1 |
| 25 | 25 | Pennsylvania | 31.6 | 67.1 | 30.8 | 0.7 | 0 |
| 23 | 26 | Delaware | 31.8 | 68.5 | 30.7 | 0.4 | -3 |
| 27 | 27 | Maryland | 31.3 | 66.2 | 30.1 | 0.9 | 0 |
| 29 | 28 | Oregon | 29.4 | 64.5 | 29.7 | 0.7 | 1 |
| 29 | 29 | Virginia | 30.0 | 66.3 | 29.6 | 0.8 | 0 |
| 28 | 29 | Maine | 29.1 | 65.1 | 29.6 | 0.5 | -1 |
| 31 | 31 | Arizona | 29.5 | 64.8 | 29.0 | 0.2 | 0 |
| 32 | 32 | Wyoming | 28.8 | 64.7 | 28.9 | -0.3 | 0 |
| 33 | 33 | New Mexico | 28.4 | 65.2 | 28.6 | 0.0 | 0 |
| 34 | 34 | Idaho | 29.3 | 65.9 | 28.4 | 0.1 | 0 |
| 41 | 35 | Rhode Island | 30.0 | 64.9 | 28.0 | 1.5 | 6 |
| 37 | 36 | Florida | 28.4 | 64.1 | 27.6 | 0.7 | 1 |
| 36 | 37 | Minnesota | 28.4 | 64.9 | 27.3 | 0.4 | -1 |
| 37 | 38 | New Hampshire | 28.1 | 64.9 | 27.2 | 0.3 | -1 |
| 35 | 39 | Washington | 27.7 | 62.2 | 27.1 | 0.2 | -4 |
| 29 | 40 | Nevada | 26.7 | 65.7 | 26.7 | -0.5 | -1 |
| 40 | 41 | New Jersey | 27.2 | 62.6 | 26.4 | 0.2 | -1 |
| 44 | 41 | Vermont | 27.6 | 62.6 | 26.4 | 1.4 | 3 |
| 43 | 43 | Connecticut | 26.9 | 63.2 | 26.0 | 0.2 | 0 |
| 42 | 44 | New York | 25.7 | 61.3 | 25.4 | -0.6 | -2 |
| 48 | 45 | Massachusetts | 25.8 | 61.4 | 25.1 | 1.3 | -3 |
| 45 | 46 | Utah | 25.2 | 60.6 | 24.9 | -0.2 | -1 |
| 47 | 47 | California | 25.1 | 60.9 | 24.8 | 0.1 | 0 |
| 46 | 48 | Montana | 25.3 | 62.2 | 24.4 | -0.5 | -2 |
| 49 | 49 | Hawaii | 23.8 | 58.8 | 23.4 | 0.6 | 0 |
| 50 | 50 | District of Columbia | 23.0 | 53.9 | 22.6 | 0.4 | 0 |
| 51 | 51 | Colorado | 22.6 | 58.7 | 21.7 | 0.4 | 0 |
| Rankings were computed by CalorieLab based on a three-year average of state-by-state statistics for adult obesity percentages from the CDC’s Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System database. Obesity is defined as a BMI of 30.0 or over, overweight as a BMI of 25.0 to 29.9. | |||||||