Ideal Weight Calculator
See what the healthy BMI range works out to for your height, with the four classic ideal-weight formulas alongside it. They disagree with each other by several kilograms, which is worth seeing rather than hiding behind one number.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Not really, and that is the honest answer. The formulas here are rules of thumb from between 1964 and 1983, most of them created for drug dosing rather than health. The BMI range is broader and more defensible, and even that is a population measure rather than a personal target.
Because they were fitted to different data for different purposes. Devine (1974) and Hamwi (1964) came from clinical dosing, Robinson and Miller (both 1983) from re-analysis of height and weight tables. At the same height they can differ by five kilograms or more.
18.5 to 24.9 is the standard adult range. It does not distinguish muscle from fat, so it misreads very muscular people, and it was not designed for individuals at all.
No. If you want a weight target, that is a conversation with a doctor who can see your health, history and body composition, none of which a height can tell you.