Average height in Honduras
Men in Honduras average 166.4 cm (5 ft 6 in), women 153.8 cm (5 ft 1 in). That puts Honduras 153rd of 186 countries in our data.
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Honduras among its neighbours
What counts as tall in Honduras
Read it as: a man of 185 cm in Honduras 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 Honduras is 8.0 cm. In practice that means about two thirds of men stand between 158.4 and 174.4 cm, and roughly 95% between 150.4 and 182.4 cm. A man of 174 cm is taller than about 84% of men here; one of 182 cm is taller than about 98%.
Men in Honduras are on average 12.6 cm taller than women. Compared with the global mean, men here are 4.6 cm shorter and women 5.2 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 Honduras?
- A man of 180 cm (5 ft 11 in) is taller than about 96% of men in Honduras. That is clearly tall here. For a woman, 180 cm is taller than >99% of women in Honduras.
- What is the average height of women in Honduras?
- Women in Honduras average 153.8 cm (5 ft 1 in), with a standard deviation of 7.5 cm. About two thirds of women are between 146.3 and 161.3 cm. That ranks 172nd of 186 countries for women.
- How does Honduras compare to Zambia?
- Men in Zambia average 166.5 cm, 0.1 cm more than men in Honduras. Women average 155.8 cm against 153.8 cm. Zambia ranks 152nd, Honduras 153rd.
- How does Honduras compare to the world average?
- The global mean is 171.0 cm for men and 159.0 cm for women. Men in Honduras are 4.6 cm shorter than that, women 5.2 cm shorter.
NCD-RisC does not publish standard deviations. SD for countries added in 2026-10 uses the global SD. Honduras 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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