India Ranks the Lowest Rank in BMI Ranking

 By the study in The Lancet, India took the position of third and fifth from the bottom respectively among countries where 19-year-old girls and boys have a low Body Mass Index (BMI)

Highlights:

♦ The investigation of Lancet gives new analysis to height and Body Mass Index (BMI) patterns in 2019 across 200 nations subsequent to breaking down information from 2,181 studies. 

♦ The mean BMI of 19-year-old young men is 20.1 in India, contrasted with a high of 29.6 in the Cook Islands and a low of 19.2 in Ethiopia.

♦ For Indian young ladies, the mean BMI is again 20.1, contrasted with a high of 29.0 in Tonga and a low of 19.6 in Timor-Leste. 

♦ The mean height of Indian 19-year-olds is 166.5 cm for young men and 155.2 cm for young ladies, well underneath the high of Netherlands young men (183.8 cm) and young ladies (170 cm). 

♦ BMI is estimated as the weight in kg isolated by the square of the tallness in meters. WHO rules characterize a typical BMI range as 18.5 to 24.9, overweight as 25 or higher, and Obesity as 30 or higher.