Children's height standards, international height standards reference

For every parent, the height of the child is also an issue they are most concerned about. It can be said that whether the child is too tall or too small is abnormal. Only a normal height can better promote the child's height development. Therefore, for people with children at home, knowing what the standard height of a child of a certain age should be will be of great help in preventing children from having height problems.
Many people worry that their children are not developing normally when they see that their children are smaller than others. In fact, sometimes it is just that the child grows slower than others, and there is no need to worry too much. So what is the standard height of children?
On April 27, the World Health Organization published new international infant growth standards, providing for the first time data and guidance on the growth of every baby in the world.

The new infant growth standards state that while there are individual differences between infants, average growth is remarkably similar across large regional and global populations. The new standards demonstrate that differences in growth between birth and five years of age are influenced more by nutrition, feeding practices, environment and health care than by genetics or ethnic characteristics. With these new standards, parents, physicians, policymakers and child advocates will understand when infants' nutritional and health care needs are not being met, allowing for early detection and treatment of malnutrition, overweight and obesity, and other growth-related conditions.

“The standards provide a new means to support every child’s best chance to develop during these most important, formative years,” said Dr LEE Jong-wook, Director-General of WHO.
The new standards are the result of an intensive study begun by WHO in 1997 to develop new international standards for assessing physical growth, nutritional status and motor development in all infants from birth to 5 years of age, involving more than 8,000 children. The new standards are based on breastfed children as the norm for growth and development.

These standards include normal parameters for weight and height for infants of different ages, weight standards relative to different heights, and a series of standards for infants at important developmental stages such as sitting, standing, and walking.

WHO weight standard for girls (kg) WHO height standard for girls (cm)

Newborn 3.2 Newborn 49.0

1 year old 9.0 1 year old 74.0

2 years old 11.5 2 years old 86.0

3 years old 13.9 3 years old 95.0

4 years old 16.0 4 years old 103.0

5 years old 18.2 5 years old 109.0

WHO boys' weight standard (kg) WHO boys' height standard (cm)

Newborn 3.4 Newborn 50.0

1 year old 9.6 1 year old 76.0

2 years old 12.1 2 years old 87.0

3 years old 14.3 3 years old 96.0

4 years old 16.3 4 years old 103.0

5 years old 18.3 5 years old 110.0

Of course, if your child is not within this standard range, then you don’t need to have too much psychological pressure, because each child’s situation is different. But if the difference is too big, you must find a solution in time so that your child can have a normal height.

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