Body weight of 2-18 year old Finnish children

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⇤--#: . This page should be merged with Height in Finland (and possibly renamed Height and body weight in Finland]]. --Jouni (talk) 09:02, 23 September 2015 (UTC) (type: truth; paradigms: science: attack)

Scope

The variable describes the body weight of Finnish children aged 2-18 years by sex and age.

Data

Information about the mean and the lower and upper bounds of 95% confidence interval (2.5th and 97.5th percentiles) of body weight at each year from 2 to 18 years of age was extracted from growth charts for Finnish children (mean +/- 2SD curves) by visual extrapolation. Information extracted can be found in Excel sheet.

Causality

None

Unit

kg

Result

Body weight of a random child in the Finnish population by sex and age

	Girls			Boys
Age (years)	Mean	-2SD	+2SD	Mean	-2SD	+2SD
2	11.538	9.359	15.128	12.179	9.615	14.744
3	14.103	10.897	17.051	14.103	11.282	17.308
4	15.385	12.282	19.231	16.026	12.308	19.231
5	17.308	14.103	21.538	17.308	14.103	21.154
6	19.487	15.385	23.462	19.231	14.872	23.718
7	21.795	17.051	26.923	21.795	16.410	26.923
8	23.846	18.590	30.128	24.615	19.231	29.615
9	26.282	19.615	33.974	26.923	20.513	33.333
10	29.744	20.769	38.462	29.487	22.051	37.179
11	32.692	22.436	43.590	32.051	24.359	40.385
12	37.179	23.846	50.000	35.256	26.923	45.513
13	41.667	26.282	56.410	39.103	27.692	50.000
14	46.923	31.410	62.179	43.590	30.769	57.692
15	51.282	36.538	66.667	50.641	33.974	67.949
16	54.103	39.744	68.590	58.974	41.667	73.077
17	55.128	41.026	69.615	62.821	45.513	78.205
18	56.410	42.949	70.256	66.026	50.000	81.410