Is 170 cm tall?
170 cm (5 ft 7 in) is taller than 45% of men worldwide, 17% of American men and 7% of Norwegian men. For women it is the 93rd percentile worldwide.
Percentile
45%
of men worldwide are shorter than 170 cm
170 cm = 5 ft 7 in
170 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 55 would be taller than 170 cm and 45 shorter.
- Across the 186 countries in our data, 170 cm stands out most in the Netherlands, where it is taller than 4% of men, and least in Timor-Leste, where it is taller than 90%.
- For a woman, 170 cm is the 93rd 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 170 cm tall for a man?
- 170 cm is taller than 45% of men worldwide, 17% of men in the United States and 7% of men in Norway. That is about average.
- Is 170 cm tall for a woman?
- For women, 170 cm is the 93rd percentile worldwide and the 82nd percentile in the United States. The global mean for women is 159.0 cm (5 ft 3 in), so 170 cm is 11.0 cm above it.
- What is 170 cm in feet?
- 170 cm is 66.9 inches, which is 5 ft 7 in to the nearest inch. One foot is 30.48 cm and one inch is 2.54 cm.
- How rare is 170 cm?
- Worldwide, about 1 in 2 men are at most 170 cm, and 1 in 14 women. In Norway it is 1 in 14 men, in the United States 1 in 6.
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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