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Ideal Weight Calculator

Ideal body weight from four formulas, plus your healthy BMI range.

Your result appears here

Fill in the fields on the left and press Calculate. The answer, the breakdown and a copy button all land in this card.

How it is calculated

Devine — men: 50 kg + 2.3 kg per inch over 5 ft; women: 45.5 kg + 2.3 kg per inch over 5 ft

Robinson, Miller and Hamwi use the same shape with different constants, which is why the four results differ by a few kilograms.

Worked example

At 170 cm a man is 6.93 inches over 5 ft, so Devine gives 50 + (2.3 × 6.93) = 65.9 kg. The four formulas land between 65.2 and 66.7 kg, and the healthy BMI range for that height is 53.5–72.0 kg.

Questions people ask

None precisely. They were built for medication dosing, not body goals. Treat the healthy BMI range as the more useful target band.

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