thus despite the more reasonable average outcome much needs to be done to promote healthier behaviours among men in kazakhstan women in kazakhstan are much more frequently obese than men in latest available data measured obesity data indicated that more than of women were obese compared to of men world obesity this places kazakhstan on par with some of the most obese countries in the oecd the prevalence of obesity varies about six fold across oecd countries from a low of in japan and korea to over in mexico and the united states across all oecd countries of the adult population is obese