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The center of gravity of a standing human body is roughly about an inch below navel: https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/physics-and-astronomy/center-of-gravity

For a seated person the CoG is shifted forwards and up of navel, total distance and angle will vary according to the specifics of the posture: https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Center-of-gravity-of-a-person-in-sitting-posture-Body-segmental-Lengths-are-reported-in_fig2_256203106

The antrophomorphic test dummies mimic the proportions, weight distribution and kinematics of a human body as close as possible, for obvious reasons: to accurately replicate the response of a human body to forces, the ATD must resemble it accurately, not just as a whole, but down to its individual part also.

Example information of THOR ADT: Anthropomorphic Test Devices; THOR 50th Percentile Adult Male Test Dummy; Incorporation by Reference

If you wish to build a more accurate model, here is an example of a further break-down of proportional masses of average human body parts (Source):

Segment Male Female
Head 8.26% 8.20%
Whole Trunk 55.1% 53.2%
Thorax 20.1% 17.0%
Abdomen 13.1% 12.2%
Pelvis 13.7% 16.0%
Total Arm 5.70% 4.97%
Upper Arm 3.25% 2.90%
Forearm 1.87% 1.57%
Hand 0.65% 0.50%
Forearm & Hand 2.52% 2.07%
Total Leg 16.7% 18.4%
Thigh 10.5% 11.8%
Leg 4.75% 5.35%
Foot 1.43% 1.33%
Leg & Foot 6.18% 6.68%
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