Average height in Puerto Rico
Men in Puerto Rico average 172.1 cm (5 ft 8 in), women 159.2 cm (5 ft 3 in). That puts Puerto Rico 77th of 186 countries in our data.
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Puerto Rico among its neighbours
What counts as tall in Puerto Rico
Read it as: a man of 185 cm in Puerto Rico is taller than 95% of men. Values under 1% or over 99% are shown as <1 and >99.
In plain language
The standard deviation for men in Puerto Rico is 8.0 cm. In practice that means about two thirds of men stand between 164.1 and 180.1 cm, and roughly 95% between 156.1 and 188.1 cm. A man of 180 cm is taller than about 84% of men here; one of 188 cm is taller than about 98%.
Men in Puerto Rico are on average 12.9 cm taller than women. Compared with the global mean, men here are 1.1 cm taller and women 0.2 cm taller. 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 Puerto Rico?
- A man of 180 cm (5 ft 11 in) is taller than about 84% of men in Puerto Rico. That counts as tall here, though not rare. For a woman, 180 cm is taller than >99% of women in Puerto Rico.
- What is the average height of women in Puerto Rico?
- Women in Puerto Rico average 159.2 cm (5 ft 3 in), with a standard deviation of 7.5 cm. About two thirds of women are between 151.7 and 166.7 cm. That ranks 86th of 186 countries for women.
- How does Puerto Rico compare to Kuwait?
- Men in Kuwait average 172.1 cm, 0.0 cm more than men in Puerto Rico. Women average 159.4 cm against 159.2 cm. Kuwait ranks 76th, Puerto Rico 77th.
- How does Puerto Rico compare to the world average?
- The global mean is 171.0 cm for men and 159.0 cm for women. Men in Puerto Rico are 1.1 cm taller than that, women 0.2 cm taller.
NCD-RisC does not publish standard deviations. SD for countries added in 2026-10 uses the global SD. Puerto Rico 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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