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Mean BMI (kg/m 2), World Health Organization (WHO), 2014 [1] Country Both Male Female
Peak BMI kg/m 2 Notes Lifespan (age at death) kg lb st Jon Brower Minnoch United States: M 650 kg 1,430 lb 102 st 5 lb 1.85 m 6 ft 1 in 186 Largest ever documented weight loss, of 419 kg (924 lb; 66 st), [1] until Khalid bin Mohsen Shaari surpassed the record in 2017. 1941–1983 (41) Khalid bin Mohsen Shaari [2] Saudi Arabia: M 620 kg 1,370 lb
Rank Country Percentage of adults with obesity (BMI ≥ 30) 1 Tonga: 70.54 2 Nauru: 70.18 3 Tuvalu: 63.93 4 Samoa: 61.24 5 The Bahamas: 47.61 6 Marshall Islands: 47.29
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 5 January 2025. Relative weight based on mass and height Medical diagnostic method Body mass index (BMI) Chart showing body mass index (BMI) for a range of heights and weights in both metric and imperial. Colours indicate BMI categories defined by the World Health Organization ; underweight, normal ...
Obesity and BMI An obese male with a body mass index of 53 kg/m 2: weight 182 kg (400 lb), height 185 cm (6 ft 1 in). Obesity classification is a ranking of obesity, the medical condition in which excess body fat has accumulated to the extent that it has an adverse effect on health. [1]
Prevalence of obesity in the adult population, top countries (2016), the United States has the tenth highest rate in the world. The CDC defines an adult (a person aged 20 years or greater) with a body mass index (BMI) of 30 or greater as obese and an adult with a BMI of 25.0 to 29.9 as overweight. [2]
The healthy BMI range varies with the age and sex of the child. Obesity in children and adolescents is defined as a BMI greater than the 95th percentile. [276] The reference data that these percentiles are based on is from 1963 to 1994 and thus has not been affected by the recent increases in rates of obesity. [277]
It has been shown, however, that individuals with BMI < 18.5 eat about 12% less calories than individuals with normal BMI (21.5 to 25) and they are 23% less physically active (by accelerometry). [17] Underweight people tend to have low appetites and typically eat little, sporadically or infrequently.