US Obesity Rate Falls as Diabetes Cases Reach All-Time High: Gallup

Diagnoses of diabetes have reached an all-time high of 13.8 percent.

Overweight people walk through Glasgow city center in Scotland on Oct. 10, 2006. Jeff J. Mitchell/Getty Images

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.