Table 1 |
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| List of excluded countries due to insufficient data on BMI | ||
| Country / Territory | UN code | Adult pop. (2005) |
| Other non-specified areas (Taiwan) | 158 | 18,405,317 |
| Serbia | 688 | 8,037,649 |
| China, Hong Kong SAR | 344 | 5,840,953 |
| Puerto Rico | 630 | 2,936,606 |
| Occupied Palestinian Territory | 275 | 1,928,679 |
| Réunion | 638 | 582,423 |
| Montenegro | 499 | 502,268 |
| China, Macao SAR | 446 | 401,495 |
| Guadeloupe | 312 | 338,621 |
| Martinique | 474 | 313,280 |
| Western Sahara | 732 | 301,959 |
| French Polynesia | 258 | 185,626 |
| New Caledonia | 540 | 168,610 |
| Netherlands Antilles | 530 | 143,172 |
| French Guiana | 254 | 130,255 |
| Channel Islands | 830 | 124,942 |
| Guam | 316 | 119,046 |
| Mayotte | 175 | 101,272 |
| United States Virgin Islands | 850 | 84,706 |
| Aruba | 533 | 79,238 |
| TOTAL: | 40,726,117 | |
Formula for estimating the expected (average) weight (W) in a specific age-sex group where mean and variance of BMI and of height.
Using the following notation for each individual values of BMI and W: 
The expected weight in a group of individuals would be: 
Assuming that Height and BMI are independent: 
Assuming that the variance of Height is constant in all values of BMI: 
Therefore the above equation simplifies to: 
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