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This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 19 September 2024. Relative weight based on mass and height 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 weight, overweight ...
Human body weight is a person's mass or weight.. Strictly speaking, body weight is the measurement of mass without items located on the person. Practically though, body weight may be measured with clothes on, but without shoes or heavy accessories such as mobile phones and wallets, and using manual or digital weighing scales.
A woman who is 36–24–36 (91–61–91 cm) at 5 ft 2 in (1.57 m) height will look different from a woman who is 36–24–36 at 5 ft 8 in (1.73 m) height. If both are the same weight, the taller woman has a much lower body mass index; if they have the same BMI, the weight is distributed around a greater volume.
The list below refers to year 2014. ... COUNTRY or TERRITORY" links. Mean BMI (kg/m 2), World Health Organization (WHO), 2014 [1] Country Both Male Female Nauru * 32. ...
This marked increase in the rate among children has occurred similarly in both boys and girls, reflected in the 2016 statistic where 18% of girls and 19% of boys were overweight. 24.5% of reproductive age women (age 20–44 years) are estimated to be overweight and 23.0% of reproductive age women are estimated to be obese.
The obesity rate for Asian adults 18 years and older (over 30 BMI) in the US in 2015 was 10.7%. [62] No breakdown by sex was given for Asian adults in the CDC figures. [62] In more recent statistics from the NHANES in 2016 of a breakdown by sex was provided. Asian adults 20 years and older had a total obesity rate of 12.7%.
In 2008, the first prevalence of US adults above 20 years was published, based on the National Health and Nutrition Examination Surveys from 1999 to 2004, finding that 24% of normal-weight adults were metabolically abnormal; on the other hand 49% of overweight adults and 68% of obese adults were metabolically abnormal.
Being overweight[a] is having more body fat than is optimally healthy. Being overweight is especially common where food supplies are plentiful and lifestyles are sedentary. As of 2003, excess weight reached epidemic proportions globally, with more than 1 billion adults being either overweight or obese. [1] In 2013, this increased to more than 2 ...