The percentile tells you what percentage of children weigh less than your child. Here are some selected percentile breakpoints for weight. With the help of our height percentile calculator you can calculate what percentile of the population your height falls in what percentage of people of the same gender age country are shorter or taller than you. Selected weight percentiles for men and women. 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. A percentile shows the relative position of the childs bmi weight or height among children of the same sex and age.
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 and 97th or 99th percentile for tall stature. These simply represent the average weight height or head circumference of a bunch of normal children. The clinical charts for infants and older children were published in two sets. For example if you are 50th percentile in height that means that you are taller than 50 out of 100 typical kids your age and sex or actually kids who live in the 1970s and 1980s before the childhood obesity epidemic started. Because of height differences men and women have different percentile breakpoints. 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.
The shape of their distributions however are similar. There are separate growth charts for weight height and head circumference. For example a boy at the 25th percentile for weight weighs more than 25 of boys his age. For example out of a sample of 100 children a percentile value of 40 percent means your child weighs more than 40 children and weighs less than the other 60. If a girl is at the 40th percentile for weight she weighs more than 40 of girls at that same age. 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.
You will see the. The tool can also be used for infants toddlers and children including newborn babies. Your bmi height and weight percentiles show how you compare to everyone else. The percentile shows how your childs weight compares to other children. Age also significantly changes weight distributions for both men and women. Using the height percentile calculator.
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