Is 167 cm tall?
167 cm (5 ft 6 in) is taller than 31% of men worldwide, 9% of American men and 3% of Norwegian men. For women it is the 86th percentile worldwide.
Percentile
31%
of men worldwide are shorter than 167 cm
167 cm = 5 ft 6 in
167 cm by group
Men
Women
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 69 would be taller than 167 cm and 31 shorter.
- Across the 186 countries in our data, 167 cm stands out most in the Netherlands, where it is taller than 1% of men, and least in Timor-Leste, where it is taller than 82%.
- For a woman, 167 cm is the 86th 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 167 cm tall for a man?
- 167 cm is taller than 31% of men worldwide, 9% of men in the United States and 3% of men in Norway. Below average in most countries.
- Is 167 cm tall for a woman?
- For women, 167 cm is the 86th percentile worldwide and the 69th percentile in the United States. The global mean for women is 159.0 cm (5 ft 3 in), so 167 cm is 8.0 cm above it.
- What is 167 cm in feet?
- 167 cm is 65.7 inches, which is 5 ft 6 in to the nearest inch. One foot is 30.48 cm and one inch is 2.54 cm.
- How rare is 167 cm?
- Worldwide, about 1 in 3 men are at most 167 cm, and 1 in 7 women. In Norway it is 1 in 34 men, in the United States 1 in 11.
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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