See How Your Weight Compares

Are more Americans heavier than you or are they lighter? The following chart compares your weight against other adults. It also considers height, since 200 pounds at five feet tall is not the same as someone who is 200 pounds and six feet tall.

Where You Stand in Height and Weight

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The estimates are based on data from the 2022 Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS), which is an annual survey by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Weight and height are self-reported, so there are some rounding blips in some places, like when people round to the nearest weight ending in zero, but overall the percentages make sense.

I wonder what happens when you control for age and look at previous years.

Notes

I downloaded the 2022 BRFSS data from the CDC, which includes individual responses to many more questions other than height and weight. The survey dates back to 1984, but available data only goes back to 1988 as of this writing.

I analyzed and prepared the data in R. I made the above with D3.js.