Background: Anthropometric measurements are useful criteria for assessing nutritional status; it is one of the simplest methods of assessment of growth and development especially in infants. These are concerned with the measurements of the variations of physical dimensions and the gross composition of the human body at different age levels and degrees of nutrition.

Method: This study was conducted with the aim of establishing the mean birth weight, length and head circumference for Punjabi new born. A total of 320 normal newborns (160 males and 160 females) of Jat Sikh and Bania population were studied from Bathinda & Barnala districts of Punjab.

Results: Means and standard deviations for the length, weight & head circumference measurements were established. Highly significant differencehad been found for birth length (p< 0.001) for both Jatsikh and Bania males.

Conclusion: In most of the anthropometric measurements, females recorded better than the males at birth.

Keywords- Anthropometric, New born, length, Weight, Measurements, Values.

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