Height percentile calculator to determine how tall or short you are versus your peers. Accepts metric and imperial units. The percentile tells you what percentage of children that have a height less than your child. Based on the entered weight and height this child has a bmi that is of the 95th percentile the cut point for obesity. Infants children and adolescents. Inches feet cm meters.
A percentile of 50 represents the average or mean height or stature. Your bmi is indicating your weight is in the category for adults of your height. For your height a normal weight range would be from to pounds. Set 1 contains 10 charts 5 for boys and 5 for girls with the 5th 10th 25th 50th 75th 90th and 95th smoothed percentile lines for all charts and the 85th percentile for bmi for age and weight for stature. Percentiles are provided for z scores between 309 and 309. Calculates height percentile by accounting for gender age and country.
In some cases including consideration of pharmacotherapy more stringent definitions of short or tall stature are used with thresholds of 3rd percentile or 1st percentile for short stature. Pediatric growth charts have been used by pediatricians nurses and parents to track the growth of infants children and adolescents in the united states since 1977. Growth charts consist of a series of percentile curves that illustrate the distribution of selected body measurements in children. Percentile the weight percentile of the child. The cdc growth charts are recommended for use in clinical practice and research to assess size and growth in us. People who are overweight or obese are at higher risk for chronic conditions such as high blood pressure diabetes and high cholesterol.
Age the age of the child in months. Because bmi percentiles are problematic when they approach 100 one alternative is to express the childs bmi as a percentage of the 95th percentile. This calculator provides body mass index bmi and the corresponding bmi for age percentile based on cdc growth charts for children and teens ages 2 through 19 years. Estimate what percentage of the population or of your biological gender are taller or shorter than you. Percentile conversion from z score is done by table look up in the standard normal table. Baby girl baby boy toddler or newborn height percentile.
Graph plot weight versus age graph with 5 10 25 50 75 95 and calculated percentile lines. For example out of a sample of 100 children a percentile value of 45 percent means your child measures more than 45 children and measures less than the other 55 children. Values beyond these extremes return percentiles of 01 and 999 respectively. Weight the mass of the child in metric and standard units. Because of possible rounding errors in age weight and height the results from this calculator may differ slightly from bmi for age percentiles calculated by other programs.
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