Average height in El Salvador
Men in El Salvador average 169.8 cm (5 ft 7 in), women 154.5 cm (5 ft 1 in). That puts El Salvador 103rd of 186 countries in our data.
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El Salvador among its neighbours
What counts as tall in El Salvador
Read it as: a man of 185 cm in El Salvador is taller than 97% of men. Values under 1% or over 99% are shown as <1 and >99.
In plain language
The standard deviation for men in El Salvador is 8.0 cm. In practice that means about two thirds of men stand between 161.8 and 177.8 cm, and roughly 95% between 153.8 and 185.8 cm. A man of 178 cm is taller than about 84% of men here; one of 186 cm is taller than about 98%.
Men in El Salvador are on average 15.3 cm taller than women. Compared with the global mean, men here are 1.2 cm shorter and women 4.5 cm shorter. These are means for people born in 1996, measured at 18. Older generations in most countries are shorter, by several centimetres where heights rose fast.
Questions
- Is 180 cm tall in El Salvador?
- A man of 180 cm (5 ft 11 in) is taller than about 90% of men in El Salvador. That counts as tall here, though not rare. For a woman, 180 cm is taller than >99% of women in El Salvador.
- What is the average height of women in El Salvador?
- Women in El Salvador average 154.5 cm (5 ft 1 in), with a standard deviation of 7.5 cm. About two thirds of women are between 147.0 and 162.0 cm. That ranks 161st of 186 countries for women.
- How does El Salvador compare to Algeria?
- Men in Algeria average 170.1 cm, 0.3 cm more than men in El Salvador. Women average 159.1 cm against 154.5 cm. Algeria ranks 102nd, El Salvador 103rd.
- How does El Salvador compare to the world average?
- The global mean is 171.0 cm for men and 159.0 cm for women. Men in El Salvador are 1.2 cm shorter than that, women 4.5 cm shorter.
NCD-RisC does not publish standard deviations. SD for countries added in 2026-10 uses the global SD. El Salvador is one of them, so the SD and the percentiles above use the global spread rather than one measured here.
Source: NCD Risk Factor Collaboration, eLife 2016, mean height at 18 of adults born in 1996. Percentiles on this page are our estimate from a normal distribution with the stated mean and SD.
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