Human body weight

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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. Excess or reduced body weight is regarded as an indicator of determining a person's health, with body volume measurement providing an extra dimension by calculating the distribution of body weight.

Average adult human weight varies by continent, from about Template:Cvt in Asia and Africa to about Template:Cvt in North America, with men on average weighing more than women.

Estimation in children

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An example of a half unfolded Broselow tape

There are a number of methods to estimate weight in children for circumstances (such as emergencies) when actual weight cannot be measured. Most involve a parent or health care provider guessing the child's weight through weight-estimation formulas. These formulas base their findings on the child's age and tape-based systems of weight estimation. Of the many formulas that have been used for estimating body weight, some include the Advanced Pediatric Life Support formula, the Leffler formula, and Theron formula.[1] There are also several types of tape-based systems for estimating children's weight, with the best-known being the Broselow tape.[2] The Broselow tape is based on length with weight read from the appropriate color area. Newer systems, such as the PAWPER tape, make use of a simple two-step process to estimate weight: the length-based weight estimation is modified according to the child's body habitus to increase the accuracy of the final weight prediction.[3]

The Leffler formula is used for children 0–10 years of age.[1] In those less than a year old, it is

m=12am+4

and for those 1–10 years old, it is

m=2ay+10

where m is the number of kilograms the child weighs and am and ay respectively are the number of months or years old the child is.[1]

The Theron formula is

m=e0.175571ay+2.197099

where m and ay are as above.[1]

Fluctuation

Body weight varies in small amounts throughout the day, as the amount of water in the body is not constant. It changes due to activities such as drinking, urinating, or exercise.[4] Professional sports participants may deliberately dehydrate themselves to enter a lower weight class, a practice known as weight cutting.[5]

Ideal body weight

Ideal body weight (IBW) was initially introduced by Ben J. Devine in 1974 to allow estimation of drug clearances in obese patients;[6] researchers have since shown that the metabolism of certain drugs relates more to IBW than total body weight.[7] The term was based on the use of insurance data that demonstrated the relative mortality for males and females according to different height-weight combinations.

The most common estimation of IBW is by the Devine formula; other models exist and have been noted to give similar results.[7] Other methods used in estimating the ideal body weight are body mass index and the Hamwi method. The IBW is not the perfect fat measurement, as it does not show the fat or muscle percentage in one's body. For example, athletes' results may show that they are overweight when they are actually very fit and healthy. Machines like the dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry can accurately measure the percentage and weight of fat, muscle, and bone in a body.

Devine formula

The Devine formula for calculating ideal body weight in adults is as follows:[7]

Hamwi method

The Hamwi method is used to calculate the ideal body weight of the general adult:[8]

Usage

Sports

Many disciplines in weightlifting or combat sports separate competitors into weight classes.

Medicine

Ideal body weight, specifically the Devine formula, is used clinically for multiple reasons, most commonly in estimating renal function in drug dosing, and predicting pharmacokinetics in morbidly obese patients.[9][10]

Average weight around the world

By region

Data from 2005:

Region Adult
population
(millions) 		Average weight %
Overweight 		Template:Tooltip
Africa 535 Template:Convert 28.9% [11]
Asia 2,815 Template:Convert 24.2% [11]
Europe 606 Template:Convert 55.6% [11]
Latin America and
the Caribbean		 386 Template:Convert 57.9% [11]
North America 263 Template:Convert 73.9% [11]
Oceania 24 Template:Convert 63.3% [11]
World 4,630 Template:Convert 34.7% [11]

By country

Country Average male weight Average female weight Sample population /
age range 		Template:Tooltip Year Template:Tooltip
Template:AFG Template:Convert Template:Convert 18–69 Measured 2018 [12]
Template:DZA Template:Convert Template:Convert 25–64 Measured 2005 [13]
Template:ARM Template:Convert Template:Convert 18–69 Measured 2016 [14]
Template:AUS Template:Convert Template:Convert 18+ Measured 2018 [15]
Template:AZE Template:Convert Template:Convert 16+ Measured 2005 [16]
Template:BGD Template:Convert Template:Convert 25+ Measured 2009–2010 [17]
Template:BLR Template:Convert Template:Convert 18+ Measured 2008 [18]
Template:BLZ Template:Convert Template:Convert 20+ Measured 2010 [19]
Template:BEN Template:Convert Template:Convert 18–69 Measured 2015 [20]
Template:BTN Template:Convert Template:Convert 18–69 Measured 2014 [21]
Template:BWA Template:Convert Template:Convert 15–69 Measured 2014 [22]
Template:BRA Template:Convert Template:Convert 20–74 Measured 2008–2009 [23]
Template:BRN Template:Convert Template:Convert 19+ Measured 2010–2011 [24]
Template:BGR Template:Convert Template:Convert 21-59 Self-reported 2021 [25]
Template:BFA Template:Convert Template:Convert 25–64 Measured 2013 [26]
Template:KHM Template:Convert Template:Convert 25–64 Measured 2010 [27]
Template:CMR Template:Convert Template:Convert 15+ Measured 2003 [28]
Template:CAN Template:Convert Template:Convert 18–79 Measured 2007–2009 [29]
Template:CHL Template:Convert Template:Convert 15+ Measured 2009–2010 [30]
Template:CRI - San José Template:Convert Template:Convert 20+ Measured 2010 [31]
Template:CZE Template:Convert Template:Convert 25–64 Measured 2016–2017 [32]
Template:EST Template:Convert Template:Convert 18+ Measured 2003–2010 [33]
Template:FRA Template:Convert Template:Convert 15+ Measured 2005 [34]
Template:GEO Template:Convert Template:Convert 18–69 Measured 2016 [35]
Template:DEU Template:Convert Template:Convert 18+ Self-reported 2021 [36]
Template:IND Template:Convert Template:Convert 16+ Measured 2020 [37]
Template:NOR Template:Convert Template:Convert 18+ Self-reported 2020 [38]
Template:OMN Template:Convert Template:Convert 18+ Measured 2017 [39]
Template:PAK Template:Convert Template:Convert 18–69 Measured 2013–2014 [40]
Template:PNG Template:Convert Template:Convert 15–64 Measured 2007–2008 [41]
Template:QAT Template:Convert Template:Convert 18–64 Measured 2012 [42]
Template:RUS Template:Convert Template:Convert 19+ Measured 2018 [43]
Template:RWA Template:Convert Template:Convert 15–64 Measured 2012–2013 [44]
Template:KNA Template:Convert Template:Convert 25–64 Measured 2007–2008 [45]
Template:SAU Template:Convert Template:Convert 25–64 Measured 2005 [46]
Template:SRB Template:Convert Template:Convert 20+ Measured 2013 [47]
Template:SLE Template:Convert Template:Convert 25–64 Measured 2009 [48]
Template:SLB Template:Convert Template:Convert 25–64 Measured 2006 [49]
Template:KOR Template:Convert Template:Convert 18+ Measured 2019 [50]
Template:ESP Template:Convert Template:Convert 18–64 Measured 2013 [51]
Template:LKA Template:Convert Template:Convert 18–69 Measured 2014–2015 [52]
Template:SDN Template:Convert Template:Convert 18–69 Measured 2016 [53]
Template:SWE Template:Convert Template:Convert 16–84 Measured 2003–2004 [54]
Template:TGO Template:Convert Template:Convert 15–64 Measured 2010 [55]
Template:TON Template:Convert Template:Convert 25–64 Measured 2012 [56]
Template:TTO Template:Convert Template:Convert 15–64 Measured 2011 [57]
Template:TUR Template:Convert Template:Convert 15+ Measured 2017 [58]
Template:TKM Template:Convert Template:Convert 18–69 Measured 2018 [59]
Template:GBR – England Template:Convert Template:Convert 16+ Measured 2019 [60]
Template:GBR – Wales Template:Convert Template:Convert 16+ Measured 2009 [61]
Template:UKR Template:Convert Template:Convert 18+ Measured 2020 [62]
Template:USA Template:Convert Template:Convert 20+ Measured 2015–2018 [63]

Global statistics

Researchers at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine published a study of average weights of adult humans in the journal BMC Public Health and at the United Nations conference Rio+20.[64]

See also

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