UK fitness and body benchmarks

In England, 64.6% of adults are active (150+ minutes a week, about 30.9 million adults) and 24.7% are inactive (under 30 minutes a week), according to Sport England's Active Lives Adult Survey for November 2024-25. About 64% of adults are overweight or living with obesity and 29% live with obesity, according to the NHS Health Survey for England 2022. Adults aged 19 to 64 average 4.3 portions of fruit and vegetables a day against a 5-a-day guideline, and 19.7 g of fibre against the 30 g recommendation, according to the National Diet and Nutrition Survey. Every figure below carries its sex or age breakdown, period, named source and access date.

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| Measure | UK figure | Breakdown | Vs guideline | Source | Period |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Adults active (150+ minutes a week) (Meet the Chief Medical Officers' guideline (30.9 million adults); up 0.7 percentage points (859,000 more active adults) on the year before) | 64.6% | Men 67%; Women 62% | 150+ minutes of moderate activity a week | Sport England, Active Lives Adult Survey, November 2024-25 | Mid-November 2024 to mid-November 2025 |
| Adults fairly active (30 to 149 minutes a week) (About 5.1 million adults) | 10.7% |  |  | Sport England, Active Lives Adult Survey, November 2024-25 | Mid-November 2024 to mid-November 2025 |
| Adults inactive (under 30 minutes a week) (About 11.8 million adults; down from a post-pandemic peak of 27.2% (November 2020-21)) | 24.7% |  |  | Sport England, Active Lives Adult Survey, November 2024-25 | Mid-November 2024 to mid-November 2025 |
| Adults overweight or living with obesity (BMI of 25 or above) | 64% | Men 67%; Women 61% |  | NHS Health Survey for England | 2022 |
| Adults living with obesity (BMI of 30 or above) | 29% | Men 28%; Women 30%; Aged 16 to 24 14%; Aged 55 to 64 36%; Aged 65 to 74 35% |  | NHS Health Survey for England | 2022 |
| Adult mean fibre intake (Adults aged 19 to 64 (AOAC fibre)) | 19.7 g a day |  | 30 g a day | National Diet and Nutrition Survey (NDNS) Years 9 to 11 | 2016/17 to 2018/19 |
| Adult mean free-sugars intake (Adults aged 19 to 64; about double the guideline) | 9.9% of energy |  | No more than 5% of energy | National Diet and Nutrition Survey (NDNS) Years 9 to 11 | 2016/17 to 2018/19 |
| Adult mean saturated fat intake (Adults aged 19 to 64) | 12.3% of energy |  | No more than 10% of energy | National Diet and Nutrition Survey (NDNS) Years 9 to 11 | 2016/17 to 2018/19 |
| Adult mean fruit and vegetable portions (Adults aged 19 to 64) | 4.3 portions a day |  | At least 5 portions a day (5 A DAY) | National Diet and Nutrition Survey (NDNS) Years 9 to 11 | 2016/17 to 2018/19 |
| Adults eating 5 portions of fruit and veg a day (Adults aged 16 and over (self-reported)) | 32.5% |  | 5 portions a day (5 A DAY) | Sport England Active Lives Survey (gov.uk Ethnicity facts and figures) | 12 months to November 2022 |

Methodology and sources

Activity figures are from Sport England's Active Lives Adult Survey, the official measure of activity in England, for the period mid-November 2024 to mid-November 2025 (November 2024-25 report). Body-weight figures are from the NHS Health Survey for England 2022, the first post-pandemic wave with directly measured height and weight. Diet figures are from the National Diet and Nutrition Survey Years 9 to 11 (2016/17 to 2018/19). The 5-a-day rate is from the Active Lives Survey as published on the gov.uk Ethnicity facts and figures service. Each figure preserves its source's own rounding; none is computed by FitCalcs.

Where a metric could not be tied to a named primary UK source, we leave it out rather than estimate. That currently includes a median parkrun or marathon finish time and average daily step count.