Ideal Weight Calculator for Indians
See your ideal weight range from 4 trusted formulas, with Asia-Pacific BMI cut-offs included.
Ideal Weight Calculator
4 formulas compared, with Asian BMI cut-offs
Not sure? Wrap your hand around your wrist — fingers overlapping easily means a small frame, just touching means medium, not touching means large.
Understanding Your Results
No single formula gets "ideal weight" exactly right for every person — that's why this calculator shows four different methods side by side instead of one falsely confident number. The combined range you see is simply the lowest and highest values produced across all of them for your height and frame.
The WHO Asia-Pacific BMI row uses 18.5–22.9 as the healthy range — stricter than the Western 18.5–24.9 standard, because Indians and other South Asians carry more visceral fat and face higher diabetes and heart disease risk at the same BMI as Western populations.
The Devine, Robinson, and Miller formulas were each built from different population datasets decades ago, and were originally designed for clinical use (like medication dosing), not fitness goals — which is exactly why pairing them with the more modern, Asia-specific BMI range matters for an Indian audience.
If your actual weight sits below this range, the priority is usually building muscle and eating enough, not just "gaining weight." If it sits above, a calorie deficit paired with strength training is the most reliable way to bring it down without losing muscle in the process.
Frequently Asked Questions
Each formula was developed from different population studies and uses slightly different assumptions about height-to-weight relationships. None is definitively "correct" on its own — showing all four together, plus the Asia-Pacific BMI range, gives you a more honest combined range rather than one falsely precise number.
People with a naturally larger bone structure and frame carry healthy weight differently than someone with a small frame at the same height. The frame size adjustment shifts the Devine, Robinson, and Miller estimates up or down by roughly 10% to reflect this, while the BMI-based range stays the same since it's based purely on height.
Indians and other South Asians tend to develop diabetes and cardiovascular risk at lower BMI levels than Western populations, due to a higher proportion of visceral fat at the same BMI. WHO recommends the stricter 18.5–22.9 Asia-Pacific range specifically for this reason, which is why it appears here instead of the Western 18.5–24.9 range.
Not necessarily — the combined range is meant to show realistic boundaries, not a single target. Where you should sit within that range depends on your muscle mass, frame, and personal health markers like blood sugar and blood pressure, which a formula based only on height can't capture.
No. These formulas, like BMI, can't distinguish muscle from fat. A muscular, low-body-fat person will often land above these height-based estimates and that's expected — pair this result with our Body Fat Calculator for a far more accurate read on your actual body composition.
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