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Ideal Weight Calculator

Four established formulas, plus the healthy BMI range.

How it works

These formulas come from clinical medicine, mostly for calculating drug doses, and they disagree with each other by several kilograms. That disagreement is informative: there is no single ideal weight, only a range.

The Devine formula (1974) is the one most used in medicine. Robinson and Miller refined it in 1983. Hamwi (1964) is the oldest and tends to run highest for tall people. The healthy BMI range is usually the most useful line of the four.

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