Average height in Guatemala
Men in Guatemala average 163.4 cm (5 ft 4 in), women 149.4 cm (4 ft 11 in). That puts Guatemala 176th of 186 countries in our data.
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Guatemala among its neighbours
What counts as tall in Guatemala
Read it as: a man of 185 cm in Guatemala is taller than >99% of men. Values under 1% or over 99% are shown as <1 and >99.
In plain language
The standard deviation for men in Guatemala is 8.0 cm. In practice that means about two thirds of men stand between 155.4 and 171.4 cm, and roughly 95% between 147.4 and 179.4 cm. A man of 171 cm is taller than about 84% of men here; one of 179 cm is taller than about 98%.
Men in Guatemala are on average 14.0 cm taller than women. Compared with the global mean, men here are 7.6 cm shorter and women 9.6 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 Guatemala?
- A man of 180 cm (5 ft 11 in) is taller than about 98% of men in Guatemala. That is clearly tall here. For a woman, 180 cm is taller than >99% of women in Guatemala.
- What is the average height of women in Guatemala?
- Women in Guatemala average 149.4 cm (4 ft 11 in), with a standard deviation of 7.5 cm. About two thirds of women are between 141.9 and 156.9 cm. That ranks 186th of 186 countries for women.
- How does Guatemala compare to Papua New Guinea?
- Men in Papua New Guinea average 163.6 cm, 0.2 cm more than men in Guatemala. Women average 154.9 cm against 149.4 cm. Papua New Guinea ranks 175th, Guatemala 176th.
- How does Guatemala compare to the world average?
- The global mean is 171.0 cm for men and 159.0 cm for women. Men in Guatemala are 7.6 cm shorter than that, women 9.6 cm shorter.
NCD-RisC does not publish standard deviations. SD for countries added in 2026-10 uses the global SD. Guatemala 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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