Editing Nauru (section)

=== Health ===
{{main|Health in Nauru}}
{{Further|Obesity in Nauru}}
[[File:Participants of a walk against Diabetes and for general fitness around Nauru airport.jpg|thumb|Nauruan residents walking around [[Nauru International Airport]]. Nauruans are among the most obese people in the world.<ref name=TI.uk />]]Nauru has one of the highest child mortality rates in the Pacific Island Countries and Territories (PICTs) region at 2.9% in 2020, according to a [[UNICEF]] study.<ref name=":5">United Nations Children’s Fund, Situation Analysis of Children in Nauru, UNICEF, Suva, 2017</ref>
Life expectancy in Nauru in 2009 was 60.6&nbsp;years for males and 68.0&nbsp;years for females.<ref name="Nauru">{{cite web |publisher=[[World Health Organization]] |work=World health report 2005 |url=https://www.who.int/countries/nru/en/index.html |title=Nauru |accessdate=2 May 2006 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20060418033541/http://www.who.int/countries/nru/en/index.html |archivedate=18 April 2006 |url-status=live}}</ref>

By measure of [[List of countries by body mass index|mean body mass index (BMI)]], Nauruans are the most overweight people in the world;<ref name="TI.uk"/> 97% of men and 93% of women are overweight or [[Obesity|obese]].<ref name="TI.uk">{{cite news |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families/health-news/fat-of-the-land-nauru-tops-obesity-league-2169418.html |title=Fat of the land: Nauru tops obesity league |date=26 December 2010 |newspaper=[[The Independent]] |accessdate=19 June 2012 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120618130255/http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families/health-news/fat-of-the-land-nauru-tops-obesity-league-2169418.html |archivedate=18 June 2012 |url-status=live}}</ref> In 2012, the obesity rate was 71.7%.<ref name="Asahi Shimbun">{{cite news |last=Nishiyama |first=Takkaki |title=Nauru: An island plagued by obesity and diabetes |url=http://ajw.asahi.com/article/globe/feature/obesity/AJ201205270051 |accessdate=23 January 2013 |newspaper=[[Asahi Shimbun]] |date=27 May 2012 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140528121809/http://ajw.asahi.com/article/globe/feature/obesity/AJ201205270051 |archivedate=28 May 2014}}</ref> [[Obesity in the Pacific|Obesity on the Pacific islands]] is common.

Nauru has the world's highest level of [[diabetes mellitus type 2|type 2 diabetes]], with more than 40% of the population affected.<ref>{{cite journal |author1=King, H |author2=Rewers M |year=1993 |title=Diabetes in adults is now a Third World problem |journal=Ethnicity & Disease |volume=3 |pages=S67–74}}</ref> Other significant dietary-related problems on Nauru include [[Kidney failure|kidney disease]] and [[Cardiovascular disease|heart disease]].<ref name="Nauru"/>

Nauru has the world's highest tobacco smoking rate (48.3% in 2022).<ref>{{cite web|url=https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/smoking-rates-by-country | website=World Population Review|title=Smoking Rates by Country|accessdate=4 October 2024}}</ref>