Europe by country
Which countries tax sugary drinks, how many children live with overweight, and how many adults live with obesity or diabetes. Choose a layer, then click a country on the map or in the table below.
Select a country to see its health figures, whether it taxes sugary drinks, since when, at what rate, what is being debated, and our sources.
Read with care. Health and taxes are shown side by side to help comparison, not to suggest that one explains the other. Overweight, obesity and diabetes depend on many factors, taxes are recent in several countries, and the figures do not cover the same years. Children were measured at age 7, 8 or 9 depending on the country, while adult obesity is self-reported.
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Child overweight: age measured in brackets. * Low reliability according to Eurostat. Click a column title to sort, a row to open the country.
Sources and method
Child overweight: share of children with overweight, obesity included, according to WHO growth references, measured by trained staff in schools between 2022 and 2024 (WHO European Childhood Obesity Surveillance Initiative, round 6, Annex 2, Table A2.1). Each country is shown for the age group it surveyed: 7 years in most countries, 8 years in Austria, Croatia, Italy, Poland and Sweden, 9 years in Cyprus. Belgium, France and the Netherlands did not take part in this round, and Germany measured children in Bremen only, so no national figure is shown for them. The 25% figure is the average across the 37 participating countries of the WHO European Region.
Adult obesity: share of people aged 18 or over with a body mass index of 30 or more, self-reported, 2025 (Eurostat, sdg_02_10, updated 20 October 2026). Eurostat flags the figures for Czechia, Ireland, Lithuania and Poland as of low reliability. No figure for the United Kingdom since it left the EU. Diabetes: age-standardised prevalence among adults aged 20 to 79, 2024, diagnosed and undiagnosed (IDF Diabetes Atlas, 11th edition). Taxes: national taxes that target sugary or sweetened drinks, including VAT increases aimed at them and flat drinks taxes; most rates come from the sugary drink tax map of the Global Food Research Program at the University of North Carolina (March 2026), updated with government sources where rates changed in 2026. Countries marked "not yet documented" have no tax listed in that map; we have not yet verified them ourselves. Status at 2 November 2026. Spotted an error? Tell us.
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