BMI-for-age (5-19 years)
Interpretation of cut-offs
Overweight: >+1SD (equivalent to BMI 25 kg/m2 at 19 years)
Obesity: >+2SD (equivalent to BMI 30 kg/m2 at 19 years)
Thinness: <-2sd>
Severe thinness: <>
Charts
z-scores
Simplified field tables
Expanded tables for constructing national health cards
Instructions [pdf, 24kb]
z-scores: girls [xlsx, 27kb]
z-scores: boys [xlsx, 27kb]
percentiles: girls [xlsx, 34kb]
percentiles: boys [xlsx, 34kb]
Computation of centiles and z-scores
Comparison with IOTF and CDC
WHO vs. IOTF [pdf, 30kb]
WHO vs. CDC 2000 [pdf, 53kb]