Is 172 cm tall?
172 cm (5 ft 8 in) is taller than 55% of men worldwide, 25% of American men and 13% of Norwegian men. For women it is the 96th percentile worldwide.
Percentile
55%
of men worldwide are shorter than 172 cm
172 cm = 5 ft 8 in
172 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 45 would be taller than 172 cm and 55 shorter.
- Across the 186 countries in our data, 172 cm stands out most in Timor-Leste, where it is taller than 94% of men, and least in the Netherlands, where it is taller than 7%.
- For a woman, 172 cm is the 96th 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 172 cm tall for a man?
- 172 cm is taller than 55% of men worldwide, 25% of men in the United States and 13% of men in Norway. That is about average.
- Is 172 cm tall for a woman?
- For women, 172 cm is the 96th percentile worldwide and the 89th percentile in the United States. The global mean for women is 159.0 cm (5 ft 3 in), so 172 cm is 13.0 cm above it.
- What is 172 cm in feet?
- 172 cm is 67.7 inches, which is 5 ft 8 in to the nearest inch. One foot is 30.48 cm and one inch is 2.54 cm.
- How rare is 172 cm?
- Worldwide, about 1 in 2 men are at least 172 cm, and 1 in 24 women. In Norway it is 1 in 8 men, in the United States 1 in 4.
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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