Is 152 cm tall?
152 cm (4 ft 12 in) is taller than 1% of men worldwide, under 1% of American men and under 1% of Norwegian men. For women it is the 18th percentile worldwide.
152 cm by group
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Percentile is the share of the group shorter than this height. “1 in X” counts the rarer side: people at or beyond this value above the median, at or under it below. Percentiles are estimated from a normal distribution with each group's mean and standard deviation.
What this means
- In a room of 100 men from around the world, about 99 would be taller than 152 cm and 1 shorter.
- Across the 186 countries in our data, 152 cm stands out most in Denmark, where it is taller than under 1% of men, and least in Timor-Leste, where it is taller than 16%.
- For a woman, 152 cm is the 18th percentile worldwide. The global mean is 159.0 cm for women and 171.0 cm for men, a gap of 12.0 cm.
Questions
- Is 152 cm tall for a man?
- 152 cm is taller than 1% of men worldwide, under 1% of men in the United States and under 1% of men in Norway. Short in most countries, though less so in Timor-Leste, where it is taller than 16% of men.
- Is 152 cm tall for a woman?
- For women, 152 cm is the 18th percentile worldwide and the 5th percentile in the United States. The global mean for women is 159.0 cm (5 ft 3 in), so 152 cm is 7.0 cm below it.
- What is 152 cm in feet?
- 152 cm is 59.8 inches, which is 4 ft 12 in to the nearest inch. One foot is 30.48 cm and one inch is 2.54 cm.
- How rare is 152 cm?
- Worldwide, about 1 in 114 men are at most 152 cm, and 1 in 6 women. In Norway it is under 1 in 10,000 men, in the United States 1 in 2,445.
Source: NCD Risk Factor Collaboration, eLife 2016, mean height at 18 of adults born in 1996. Country SDs where published, otherwise the global SD. Percentiles on this page are our estimate from a normal distribution with the stated mean and SD.
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