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BMI Calculator for Indians
Body Mass Index scored against the Indian (ICMR / WHO Asia-Pacific) cut-offs — 18.5, 23 and 25 — rather than the looser 18.5 / 25 / 30 chart most global calculators still use.
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How we compute this
BMI = weight (kg) ÷ height (m)². The number doesn't change with geography — what changes is where the lines get drawn. We classify your BMI against the Indian / Asian cut-offs: under 18.5 is underweight, 18.5 to 22.9 is normal, 23 to 24.9 is overweight, and 25 or above is obese.
That's tighter than the WHO global chart (which puts overweight at 25 and obese at 30) because at the same BMI, Indians and other South Asians carry more body fat — especially visceral fat around the organs — than the mostly-European cohorts the global chart was built on. That extra fat shows up as diabetes and cardiovascular risk that starts climbing at a lower BMI, so ICMR and the WHO Asia-Pacific expert group both recommend the lower cut-offs for Asian-Indian populations. Using the global chart on an Indian body under-flags risk.
Questions people ask
At the same BMI, Indians tend to carry more body fat — particularly visceral fat — than European or American populations, and that fat drives up diabetes and heart-disease risk at a lower BMI. ICMR and the WHO Asia-Pacific expert group set the Indian cut-offs (18.5 / 23 / 25) lower than the global chart (18.5 / 25 / 30) so the classification actually matches when health risk starts rising in Indian bodies.