Is 175 cm tall?
175 cm (5 ft 9 in) is taller than 69% of men worldwide, 39% of American men and 24% of Norwegian men. For women it is the 98th percentile worldwide.
Percentile
69%
of men worldwide are shorter than 175 cm
175 cm = 5 ft 9 in
175 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 31 would be taller than 175 cm and 69 shorter.
- Across the 186 countries in our data, 175 cm stands out most in Timor-Leste, where it is taller than 97% of men, and least in the Netherlands, where it is taller than 15%.
- For a woman, 175 cm is the 98th 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 175 cm tall for a man?
- 175 cm is taller than 69% of men worldwide, 39% of men in the United States and 24% of men in Norway. Taller than most, but not unusual.
- Is 175 cm tall for a woman?
- For women, 175 cm is the 98th percentile worldwide and the 95th percentile in the United States. The global mean for women is 159.0 cm (5 ft 3 in), so 175 cm is 16.0 cm above it.
- What is 175 cm in feet?
- 175 cm is 68.9 inches, which is 5 ft 9 in to the nearest inch. One foot is 30.48 cm and one inch is 2.54 cm.
- How rare is 175 cm?
- Worldwide, about 1 in 3 men are at least 175 cm, and 1 in 61 women. In Norway it is 1 in 4 men, in the United States 1 in 3.
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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