About this data

Source: NHS England, Health Survey for England 2024, Table 8

• The survey measured a few hundred Black, Mixed and Other adults, and around 800 Asian adults, so these figures are less precise than those for White adults.
• People of Asian, Black and some other ethnic backgrounds face higher risks of type 2 diabetes and heart disease at a lower BMI, so the NHS uses lower thresholds for them (a BMI of 27.5 rather than 30). On those thresholds, 56% of Black adults and 37% of Asian adults were at high risk in 2022 and 2024.
• Age-standardised: adjusted as if each group had the same age profile as the whole population.
• Body mass index (BMI) is weight in kilograms divided by the square of height in metres. For adults, a BMI of 25 or more counts as overweight and 30 or more as obese; overweight here includes obesity.

This chart appears in Obesity.