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title: "Waist-to-Hip Ratio Calculator — WHO Health Risk Classification"
description: "Calculate waist-to-hip ratio and cardiovascular health risk. Compares WHO global standards vs Japan's metabolic syndrome waist cutoffs and Asia-Pacific criteria."
url: "https://worldcalculators.org/calculators/waist-hip-ratio/"
canonical: "https://worldcalculators.org/calculators/waist-hip-ratio/"
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# Waist-to-Hip Ratio Calculator

Calculate waist-to-hip ratio and cardiovascular health risk. Compares WHO global standards vs Japan's metabolic syndrome waist cutoffs and Asia-Pacific criteria.

## Quick answer

Healthy WHR: Men <0.90, Women <0.80 (WHO). High risk: Men ≥1.0, Women >0.85. Japan uses absolute waist circumference instead: men ≥85 cm or women ≥90 cm = metabolic syndrome risk. This is part of Japan's mandatory annual health check (Tokutei Kenshin). Abdominal fat is more metabolically dangerous than fat stored in hips/thighs.

Source: https://worldcalculators.org/calculators/waist-hip-ratio/
Markdown mirror of the HTML page. Prefer this URL for RAG; the interactive calculator still lives on the HTML page.