Is 158 cm tall?
158 cm (5 ft 2 in) is taller than 5% of men worldwide, 1% of American men and under 1% of Norwegian men. For women it is the 45th percentile worldwide.
158 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 95 would be taller than 158 cm and 5 shorter.
- Across the 186 countries in our data, 158 cm stands out most in the Netherlands, where it is taller than under 1% of men, and least in Timor-Leste, where it is taller than 41%.
- For a woman, 158 cm is the 45th 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 158 cm tall for a man?
- 158 cm is taller than 5% of men worldwide, 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 41% of men.
- Is 158 cm tall for a woman?
- For women, 158 cm is the 45th percentile worldwide and the 22nd percentile in the United States. The global mean for women is 159.0 cm (5 ft 3 in), so 158 cm is 1.0 cm below it.
- What is 158 cm in feet?
- 158 cm is 62.2 inches, which is 5 ft 2 in to the nearest inch. One foot is 30.48 cm and one inch is 2.54 cm.
- How rare is 158 cm?
- Worldwide, about 1 in 19 men are at most 158 cm, and 1 in 2 women. In Norway it is 1 in 1,666 men, in the United States 1 in 184.
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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