Where are you on the global fat scale?

00Melyanna00
00Melyanna00 Posts: 221 Member
in Food and Nutrition
Found this nice tool: you enter your height, weight, age and sex and it calculates your BMI, then it compares your BMI to that of the average in your Country and other Countries in the World and tells you where your average BMI is that of the majority of the population.

I got this:

You have a lower BMI than 55% of females aged 30-44 in your country
You have a lower BMI than 56% of females aged 30-44 in the world
You're most like someone from Papua New Guinea
If everyone in the world had the same BMI as you, it would remove 7,012,630 tonnes from the total weight of the world's population

Link: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-18770328
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  • cbevan1229
    cbevan1229 Posts: 326 Member
    You have a lower BMI than 60% of females aged 30-44 in your country Global
    You have a higher BMI than 76% of females aged 30-44 in the world
    If everyone in the world had the same BMI as you, it would add 48,899,343 tonnes to the total weight of the world's population
    You're most like someone from Uruguay
  • leambi
    leambi Posts: 452 Member
    Ok, this intrigued me so i gave it a go.

    You have a lower BMI than 88% of females aged 30-44 in your country
    You have a lower BMI than 69% of females aged 30-44 in the world
    You're most like someone from India
    If everyone in the world had the same BMI as you, it would remove 30,293,864 tonnes from the total weight of the world's population

    Be interesting to see what everyone else gets.
  • sgthaggard
    sgthaggard Posts: 581 Member
    You have a lower BMI than 88% of females aged 30-44 in your country
    You have a lower BMI than 77% of females aged 30-44 in the world
    If everyone in the world had the same BMI as you, it would remove 46,797,868 tonnes fromthe total weight of the world's population
    You're most like someone from Ethiopia

    Ethiopia? Seriously?
  • susanswan
    susanswan Posts: 1,194 Member
    Cool! I am most like someone from Uganda! I take that as a compliment! I am 55, 5' 5.5" tall and weigh 136.8 today! = D BMI is 22, I am 89% below the National Average, and I am 68% below the world average! = D Yea! Healthy eating with Eat to Live!
  • SamanthaAnnM
    SamanthaAnnM Posts: 143 Member
    I am most like a Vietnamese person! How interesting :)
  • xarge
    xarge Posts: 484 Member
    You have a lower BMI than 96% of females aged 15-29 in your country
    You have a lower BMI than 83% of females aged 15-29 in the world
    If everyone in the world had the same BMI as you, it would remove 72,689,800 tonnes from the total weight of the world's population.

    Shows how inaccurate BMI is.
  • fueledbychange
    fueledbychange Posts: 132 Member
    Most likely from Argentina. Oooh(:
  • Karahazen103
    Karahazen103 Posts: 14
    Ha! That made me feel worse. =p Wonderful...
  • stevedolan
    stevedolan Posts: 9 Member
    You have a lower BMI than 87% of males aged 30-44 in your country
    You have a lower BMI than 58% of males aged 30-44 in the world
    If everyone in the world had the same BMI as you, it would remove 6,265,914 tonnes from the total weight of the world's population
    You're most like someone from Brunei

    Found the Brunei comparison interesting, admittedly had to look the country up on a map ;)
  • kitchensync
    kitchensync Posts: 22 Member
    Interesting! When I visited Seattle last weekend, I was below the national average. Being a Canadian, I'm above our national average :- /
  • Meg_78
    Meg_78 Posts: 998 Member
    bmi 18
    You have a lower BMI than 95% of females aged 30-44 in your country.
    You have a lower BMI than 87% of females aged 30-44 in the world.
    If everyone in the world had the same BMI as you, it would remove 71,305,353 tonnes from the total weight of the world's population

    You're most like someone from Ethiopia!

    LOL, yep, that's why I'm a gainer!
  • RancidPolecat2
    RancidPolecat2 Posts: 46
    Apparently I have a French flavour. mmmm

    "If everyone in the world had the same BMI as you, it would add 14,388,718 tonnes to the total weight of the world's population"

    Thanks, BBC. That makes me feel so much better.
  • sazvampire
    sazvampire Posts: 53
    BMI - 46!!
    You have a higher BMI than 100% of females aged 15-29 in your country
    You have a higher BMI than 100% of females aged 15-29 in the world

    If everyone in the world had the same BMI as you, it would add 264,925,947 tonnes to the total weight of the world's population

    You're most like someone from Tonga

    Hope that makes you all feel better lol
  • cfrock
    cfrock Posts: 37
    Wow that was cool... but mostly kind of depressing. :|
  • JennafurC
    JennafurC Posts: 65 Member
    BMI: 23
    You have a lower BMI than 84% of females aged 30-44 in your country.
    You have a lower BMI than 55% of females aged 30-44 in the world.
    If everyone in the world had the same BMI as you, it would remove 6,227,635 tonnes from the total weight of the world's population

    thanks, that was pretty interesting!
  • ohmyshysamantha
    ohmyshysamantha Posts: 138 Member
    Breaking it.

    If everyone in the world had the same BMI as you, it would add 240,293,765 tonnes to the total weight of the world's population

    I feel so much better about my life now.
  • lcphipps
    lcphipps Posts: 29
    very interesting.........not sure it made me feel any better
  • ksavy
    ksavy Posts: 271 Member
    You have a lower BMI than 81% of females aged 15-29 in your country
    You have a higher BMI than 53% of females aged 15-29 in the world
    You're most like someone from Mali.
    If everyone in the world had the same BMI as you, it would remove 17,882,554 tonnes fromthe total weight of the world's population
  • BubbleGumKisses
    BubbleGumKisses Posts: 156 Member
    You have a lower BMI than 86% of females aged 15-29 in your country
    You have a lower BMI than 56% of females aged 15-29 in the world


    Did you know?
    If everyone in the world had the same BMI as you, it would remove 30,293,864 tonnes fromthe total weight of the world's population

    You're most like someone from Yemen
  • susiebear29
    susiebear29 Posts: 266
    Apparently I have a lower BMI than 95% of females aged 15-29 in England and lower BMI than 78% of them in the world, most like someone from Vietnam?!!! WEIRD!!! I love Vietnamese food too!!! :smile:
  • hongruss
    hongruss Posts: 389 Member
    My BMI is lower than 95% of 30 - 44 yr old males in my country (UK) & lower than 75% of 30 - 44 yr old males in the world, I am most like a male from Rwanda!

    Not sure how to take that :)

    Russ
  • victoria4321
    victoria4321 Posts: 1,719 Member
    Obesity Index
    24 bmi

    You have a lower BMI than 71% of females aged 15-29 in your country

    You have a higher BMI than 69% of females aged 15-29 in the world


    Did you know?
    If everyone in the world had the same BMI as you, it would add 4,489,531 tonnes to the total weight of the world's population
    You're most like someone from Haiti*

    That's pretty cool since my family is actually from Haiti.
  • 00Melyanna00
    00Melyanna00 Posts: 221 Member
    BMI - 46!!
    You have a higher BMI than 100% of females aged 15-29 in your country
    You have a higher BMI than 100% of females aged 15-29 in the world

    If everyone in the world had the same BMI as you, it would add 264,925,947 tonnes to the total weight of the world's population

    You're most like someone from Tonga

    Hope that makes you all feel better lol

    Did you enter all measurements correctly? It's impossible to have a BMI higher of lower of 100% of the population.
    The first time I tried it, for example, I didn't use the correct punctuation (used a comma and wrote my height this way 1,65 mt instead of 1.65 mt) and got a very weird result.
  • jennaworksout
    jennaworksout Posts: 1,739 Member
    Obesity Index
    21bmi
    BMI is an estimate of how "overweight" or "obese" a person is National
    Below average
    You have a lower BMI than 83% of females aged 30-44 in your country Global
    Below average
    You have a lower BMI than 70% of females aged 30-44 in the world
    MOst like someone from India...very cool
  • gmpuggles
    gmpuggles Posts: 137 Member
    BMI - 35
    BMI is an estimate of how "overweight" or "obese" a person is
    National: You have a higher BMI than 83% of females aged 30-44 in your country
    Global: You have a higher BMI than 98% of females aged 30-44 in the world

    Did you know?
    If everyone in the world had the same BMI as you, it would add 141,670,099 tonnes to the total weight of the world's population

    You're most like someone from Micronesia

    Definitely made me chuckle, yet also slightly depressing. At least I'm working on lowering my BMI. :)
  • kim_maxcreek
    kim_maxcreek Posts: 11 Member
    42bmi

    National: Above average - You have a higher BMI than 98% of females aged 30-44 in your country

    Global: Above average - You have a higher BMI than 100% of females aged 30-44 in the world

    If everyone in the world had the same BMI as you, it would add 219,764,333 tonnes tothe total weight of the world's population

    You're most like someone from Tonga

    Talk about a wake up call!!!!!!
  • Superbritt2drescu
    Superbritt2drescu Posts: 273 Member
    BMI-22%
    You have a lower BMI than 83% of females aged 15-29 in your country
    You have a lower BMI than 51% of females aged 15-29 in the world
    If everyone in the world had the same BMI as you, it would remove 23,361,816 tonnes from the total weight of the world's population
    You're most like someone from Tanzania

    Interesting! :)
  • Booksandbeaches
    Booksandbeaches Posts: 1,791 Member
    Interesting link.

    I got 0 for the obesity obmi and
    Below average
    You have a lower BMI than 100% of females aged 30-44 in your country Global
    Below average
    You have a lower BMI than 100% of females aged 30-44 in the world
    You're most like someone from Ethiopia

    What's funny to me is that I've been mistaken in Washington D.C. many times for Eithiopian even though I'm Asian. LOL!
  • DaneDillinger
    DaneDillinger Posts: 70 Member
    The scale doesn't take into account fat percentage/musculature. According to this, Ronnie Coleman would be:

    Obesity Index: 41bmi
    BMI is an estimate of how "overweight" or "obese" a person is National
    Above average
    You have a higher BMI than 99% of males aged 45-59 in your country Global
    Above average
    You have a higher BMI than 100% of males aged 45-59 in the world

    Did you know?
    If everyone in the world had the same BMI as you, it would add 214,205,409 tonnes to the total weight of the world's population.

    For those of you who don't know who Ronnie Coleman is, he was Mr. Olympia from 1998-2005. To all of you disheartened by your results, keep this in mind...
  • skinnyfithealthyme
    skinnyfithealthyme Posts: 213
    You have a lower BMI than 81% of females aged 15-29 in your country
    You have a higher BMI than 53% of females aged 15-29 in the world

    I don't really like BMI calculators though because of my muscle mass :\

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