Average height in Uruguay
Men in Uruguay average 173.4 cm (5 ft 8 in), women 162.1 cm (5 ft 4 in). That puts Uruguay 64th of 186 countries in our data.
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Uruguay among its neighbours
What counts as tall in Uruguay
Read it as: a man of 185 cm in Uruguay is taller than 93% of men. Values under 1% or over 99% are shown as <1 and >99.
In plain language
The standard deviation for men in Uruguay is 8.0 cm. In practice that means about two thirds of men stand between 165.4 and 181.4 cm, and roughly 95% between 157.4 and 189.4 cm. A man of 181 cm is taller than about 84% of men here; one of 189 cm is taller than about 98%.
Men in Uruguay are on average 11.3 cm taller than women. Compared with the global mean, men here are 2.4 cm taller and women 3.1 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 Uruguay?
- A man of 180 cm (5 ft 11 in) is taller than about 80% of men in Uruguay. That counts as tall here, though not rare. For a woman, 180 cm is taller than 99% of women in Uruguay.
- What is the average height of women in Uruguay?
- Women in Uruguay average 162.1 cm (5 ft 4 in), with a standard deviation of 7.5 cm. About two thirds of women are between 154.6 and 169.6 cm. That ranks 54th of 186 countries for women.
- How does Uruguay compare to Albania?
- Men in Albania average 173.4 cm, 0.0 cm more than men in Uruguay. Women average 161.8 cm against 162.1 cm. Albania ranks 63rd, Uruguay 64th.
- How does Uruguay compare to the world average?
- The global mean is 171.0 cm for men and 159.0 cm for women. Men in Uruguay are 2.4 cm taller than that, women 3.1 cm taller.
NCD-RisC does not publish standard deviations. SD for countries added in 2026-10 uses the global SD. Uruguay 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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