FOOD AND AGRICULTURE ORGANIZATION OF THE UNITED NATIONSESN: FAO/WHO/UNU
EPR/81/8
August 1981
WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION
THE UNITED NATIONS UNIVERSITY

Provisional Agenda Item 2.2.3

Joint FAO/WHO/UNU Expert Consultation on Energy and Protein Requirements

Rome, 5 to 17 October 1981


BODY WEIGHTS AND HEIGHTS BY COUNTRIES

by

W.A. Marshall
University of Technology
Loughborough
Leicestershire
England


CONTENTS

1. Introduction

2. Outline of Method

3. Evidence

i. Annotated Bibliography

ii. Abridged table of data from literature (Table I)

4. Interpretation of Evidence

i. Selected data for countries, simplified to predominant U.S. centile within age bands (Table II)

ii. Interpretation of centile data as basis for generalised height and weight curves

iii. Generalised height and weight curves in tabular form (Table III)

iv. Summary of countries represented by generalised growth curves (Table IV)

v. Variation in stature and weight

vi. Weight for height

5. Conclusions

6. Appendix

Illustrations of stature and weight curves