Weight percentile adults

Below is a weight percentile by age calculator for adult men and women in the United States. Select an age range and sex, and optionally toggle between imperial pounds and metric kilograms units to view the distribution of weights for American adults. Try our BMI Calculator to compute it. Also, try the weight distribution calculator for men and women for the aggregated data from this post.

Back to the BMI and Weight percentile calculator. In adults, BMI percentiles are not usually relevant because the classification of people as overweight is based on fixed BMI thresholds of 25 to Since most of the visitors to my website are adults, especially young adults and since BMI as a classifier of fatness levels has many known flaws , I decided to show weight percentiles. Thus, it is entirely possible to have a Weight percentile at the 50 th percentile and still be considered overweight. This means that you can be average weight and overweight at the same time.

Below is a weight percentile calculator for men and women, 18 years old and older in the United States. You can toggle between imperial pounds and metric kilograms units to view the distribution of weights. We also have weight by age for adults. Weight alone is not a good indicator of health.

Enter your sex, height, and weight below in either U. Your BMI, height, and weight percentiles show how you compare to everyone else. For example, if you are 50th percentile in height, that means that you are taller than 50 out of typical kids your age and sex, or actually kids who live in the 's and 's before the childhood obesity epidemic started. If you are 80th percentile in weight that means you are heavier than 80 out of kids your age and sex, according to the CDC National Center for Health Statistics. BMI indicates how thin or how fat you are unless you are very muscular, in which case BMI is not accurate.