What is the average height and weight for a newly turned five year old girl?
My daughter just turned 5 in November. I am just wondering, what is the average height and weight for a newly turned five year old girl? I amjust asking because, I have notice she is the smallest one in her dance group, even smaller than the 4 year olds. The doctors aren’t worried at all, I mean my husband and I are only 5 ‘4 and 5 ‘6 so she won’t be gigantor or anything. How big was/is your child at five years old?
July 19th, 2010 at 8:00 am
I’ve got some charts which were given here (Australia) by the health service. Average is 106 cm and 18 kg. 10 percentile (taller than 10%) is 101 cm (no weight given). 3 percentile is 98 cm and 14 kg.
EDIT: I’ve just noticed there’s only an 8 cm gap between 3 percentile and average. That doesn’t seem right, but that’s what it says.
EDIT 2: We also marked our kids on the charts. They were 112, 111 and 105 cm.
July 19th, 2010 at 8:14 am
My niece is 45″ and 40lbs and she is shorter than average, and a little heavier than average, she is also still 4.
July 19th, 2010 at 8:27 am
well the anwser above seems not right at all..my son just turned five and he just had his checkup last friday so he was 45lbs which was about the 80th percentile and he was 43.5 inches and that was just above the 50th percentile..i do know that girls are generally smaller than boys so for example if a 5yr old girl had the same stats as my son her percentiles would be higher.so judging by the fact that she is noticibly smaller than all the other kids im guessing she has to be under the 50 percentiles for her height and potentially her weight.so as for the anwser above..if this neice is 45″ and still 4yrs she would be extremely high on the chart for her height and her weight seems about average but im guessing no higher than the 75 %mark..im sorry but i know the charts like the backofmy hand froma ll the appts i had and have!!!pple hav no clue how big their kids are and are so stupid when they guess and its clearly obsurd looking at an average size kid that the parents guess weigh a crazy amount..its almost annoying.i mean come on a lot of people own digital scales cant they just plop them on for an round about weight!sorry for the tangent but i see it all too often and pple wonder why doctors are so crazy about meds for kids cause parents are careless and assume that the stats of their young kids are no big deal but in fact its an improtant thing to know in their development!!!!!!!!!!