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Appropriate nutrition is an important contributing factor to healthy life, which helps in physical and mental health as well as prolonged life expectancy of people. Unfortunately, in developing countries such as Afghanistan there is little focus on the youth nutrition, growth and development. There is imbalance nutritional status among this group, some of them are underweight and some others are overweight. Having normal body weight is one of the important factors for health and wellbeing of the human being and studying the proportion of body height and weight has always been the key focus areas of the researches. Objective: To identify the height and weight ratio among the 4th year students of Kabul University of Medical Sciences Method: This descriptive cross-sectional study was conducted on the fourth year students of Kabul Medical University, aged 20 to 25 years. The study materials include digital scale, height measurement instrument and a specific table for recording of the measurements including the subjects� related other information, based on which the BMI of the students in two groups of those who are living in hostel and those who are not in hostel. Results: a total of 236 students participated in this study including 162 residence of hostel and 74 not hosteled. The mean BMI in non-hosteled student was SEM 22.1�0.1, while it is SEM 19.9�0.1 among those who are residing in hostel. Conclusion: There are differences between the mean BMI value of hosteled and non-hosteled students with low BMI in hosteled students in comparison to the non-hosteled students.