what is the average body fat in a person?

Im 15. i think im about average fit. My p.e. teacher checked are body fat today, i got 16% of my body being body fat. is that close to average?

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What is the most accurate way for the average person to calculate there body fat percentage %?

What is the most accurate way for the average person to calculate there body fat percentage? Now i don’t have access to water displacement but the online calculators don’t seem the best way…or are they? I’m interested because i’m going into law enforcement and am curious just to see how i measure up because they do have body fat requirements. i think i’m like maybe 13% from what i calculated on some online calculator

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What is the average body fat percentage?

I am 16 years old. female. what should my Body fat percentage be?
I am at 10%.
is that too little, perfect, too much?
thanks!

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what is the average body fat percentage in males?

I have been looking around online, trying to find a chart that shows the distribution of body fat percentage in American males. I don’t seem to be able to find one. I want to know what percentile a male with around 10% body fat would be in.

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What Should My Average Body Fat Percentage Be?

I have been looking all over the internent for a calculator to measure my body fat percentage. But every site i go to tells me something different. So what should my average body fat percentage be and what is a good site to measure it? I am 14 and 115 pounds. is this bad? i just always feel fat because all my friends all way less than me. so i just want to know where i should be at with my weight and body fat percentage. Help!

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Body Fat Percentage Average For Men And Women

A lot of people want to know? the average body fat percentage that is healthy. Very often people have a specific number in mind that they want to achieve. The “ideal” body fat. If you want to lose body fat and look leaner, then an “ideal” level of body fat is a level that is lower than it was last week!

If you are happy with the way you look and you don?t need to get any leaner then “ideal” level of body fat is the same as it was last week. Making personal improvements is much more important then getting obsessed with body fat percentage numbers. But knowing some averages can be very useful because then you know where you are at and how much work you have to do.

The female hormone estrogen causes women to carry at least 5% more body fat than men. The average woman has about 23% body fat and the average man about 17%. These are only averages not “ideal” body fat levels. The goal for anyone should be to become better then the average level. That can be achieved by most people.

Body fat average and ideals also vary with age. The average American loses 6.6 pounds of lean body mass every decade after age 20. The rate of muscle loss increases after age 45. With advancing age, most people gain fat even when body weight doesn?t change much; the muscle shrinks as the fat accumulates.

An ideal percentage of body fat for a non-athlete is around 10-14% for men and 16-20% for women. Desirable body fat levels for athletes may be even lower, depending on the nature of the sport. At these “ideal” body fat levels, you will look lean and relatively fat free. Bodybuilders body fat levels are somewhere between 3-5% for men and 8-12% for women. Soccer players body fat levels are between 7-12% for men and 10-18% for women.