Average height in Nicaragua
Men in Nicaragua average 166.7 cm (5 ft 6 in), women 154.4 cm (5 ft 1 in). That puts Nicaragua 145th of 186 countries in our data.
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Nicaragua among its neighbours
What counts as tall in Nicaragua
Read it as: a man of 185 cm in Nicaragua 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 Nicaragua is 8.0 cm. In practice that means about two thirds of men stand between 158.7 and 174.7 cm, and roughly 95% between 150.7 and 182.7 cm. A man of 175 cm is taller than about 84% of men here; one of 183 cm is taller than about 98%.
Men in Nicaragua are on average 12.3 cm taller than women. Compared with the global mean, men here are 4.3 cm shorter and women 4.6 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 Nicaragua?
- A man of 180 cm (5 ft 11 in) is taller than about 95% of men in Nicaragua. That is clearly tall here. For a woman, 180 cm is taller than >99% of women in Nicaragua.
- What is the average height of women in Nicaragua?
- Women in Nicaragua average 154.4 cm (5 ft 1 in), with a standard deviation of 7.5 cm. About two thirds of women are between 146.9 and 161.9 cm. That ranks 164th of 186 countries for women.
- How does Nicaragua compare to Egypt?
- Men in Egypt average 166.7 cm, 0.0 cm more than men in Nicaragua. Women average 157.3 cm against 154.4 cm. Egypt ranks 144th, Nicaragua 145th.
- How does Nicaragua compare to the world average?
- The global mean is 171.0 cm for men and 159.0 cm for women. Men in Nicaragua are 4.3 cm shorter than that, women 4.6 cm shorter.
NCD-RisC does not publish standard deviations. SD for countries added in 2026-10 uses the global SD. Nicaragua 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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