Calculate your Body Mass Index (BMI) to understand your weight category and general health standing based on WHO standards.
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Health Status
Enter your weight and height to see your BMI result and where you stand on the health scale.
About this calculator
Overview
Body Mass Index (BMI) is a tool that uses your height and weight to estimate how much body fat you have. It's a quick and simple way to screen for weight categories that may lead to health problems. While not a direct measure of body fat percentage, it's highly correlated with more direct measures of body fat like skinfold thickness and underwater weighing.
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Pro Tips
Combine BMI with other measures like waist circumference to get a more complete picture of your health.
Don't obsess over a single number. Focus on overall lifestyle habits like balanced eating and regular physical activity.
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Fun Facts
"Adolphe Quetelet, a Belgian mathematician, developed the BMI formula in 1832. It was originally called the Quetelet Index."
"BMI scales for children and teens use the same formula but the results are interpreted differently using age-and-sex-specific percentiles."
"Athletes with high muscle mass may have a high BMI despite having low body fat, because muscle is much denser than fat."
