Body Mass Index Calculator for Children

Is your child obese? Is he/she at risk of developing obesity later on? To know, try our child's body mass index (BMI) calculator which calculates not only your child's body mass index, but also his/her body mass index percentile which is the most important single method for assessing and screening your chid's obesity risk.

Children Body Mass Index Percentile Calculator
Enter the following data
Gender
Age	years
Height
Weight
Results
BMI	kg per meter square
BMI percentile	percentile
BMI as a multiple of the mean BMI	times mean BMI
Automatic recalculation

Interpretation of the results
BMI	BMI percentiles	Interpretation
< 18.5	< 5th	Underweight
18.5 to 24.9	5th to 85th	Normal
25 to 29.9	85th to <95th	Overweight
30 or more	> 95th	Obese
Note: it is much more useful to do frequent measurements e.g. every month, to see if your child is crossing percentiles for example, if a child's body mass index percentile is now at the 10th percentileand at the 60th after 1 month , the child's weight may be abnormal althaugh both values are within normal range.