What is the average or healthy body fat percentage for a person my age?

15 year old female. :) Thanks!! I'm 7.4%. I just learned in gym today...is that low/average/high? Thanks! well I am 5'3" and 96 lbs. not bad?

Public Comments

1. That's really low, like, almost unhealthy
2. Between 19%-27% is good for a girl your age. For particularly athletic muscular girls as low as 13%-17% is still acceptable. I don't know what method they were using to measure your body fat, but I can pretty much guarantee you are not 7.4% body fat because that would be almost impossibly low and downright dangerous for a female unelss she was a pro-body builder in competition shape: http://www.hantelparty.de/xt/female-bodybuilder.gif