Anthropometric Assessment: Height, Weight, Body Mass Index (BMI) (Adults)

Lambert-Adolf-Jacques Quetelet is credited with the concept of the body mass index (BMI).

The proposal was made in a monograph in 1835 on the development of the human body. As Freudenthal says, “With Quetelet’s work in 1835 a new era in statistics began … The work gave a description of the average man as both a static and dynamic phenomenon.”