Obesity rates among U.S. adults declined to 37 percent in 2025, while diabetes diagnoses reached an all-time high, analytics company Gallup said in an Oct. 28 statement.
The decline in the obesity rate, down from the “record high” of nearly 40 percent in 2022, translates to about 7.6 million fewer obese adults over the three years, it said.
Gallup had reported a more than 14 percentage point jump in obesity rates between 2008 and 2022. Gallup determined obesity based on the federal standard of a body mass index (BMI) value of 30 or higher. BMI is calculated by dividing a person’s weight in kilograms by the square of their height in meters….