Is 5 ft 2 tall?

5 ft 2 in by group

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 5 ft 2 in and 5 shorter.
• Across the 186 countries in our data, 5 ft 2 in 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 39%.
• For a woman, 5 ft 2 in is the 42nd 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 5 ft 2 tall for a man?

5 ft 2 in is taller than 5% of men worldwide, under 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 39% of men.

Is 5 ft 2 tall for a woman?

For women, 5 ft 2 in is the 42nd percentile worldwide and the 19th percentile in the United States. The global mean for women is 159.0 cm (5 ft 3 in), so 5 ft 2 in is 1.5 cm below it.

What is 5 ft 2 in cm?

5 ft 2 in is 157.5 cm, which rounds to 157 cm. One inch is exactly 2.54 cm, so 62 inches is 157.48 cm.

How rare is 5 ft 2?

Worldwide, about 1 in 22 men are at most 5 ft 2 in, and 1 in 2 women. In Norway it is 1 in 2,193 men, in the United States 1 in 225.