Is 6 ft 2 tall?

6 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 2 would be taller than 6 ft 2 in and 98 shorter.
• Across the 186 countries in our data, 6 ft 2 in stands out most in the Philippines, where it is taller than over 99% of men, and least in the Netherlands, where it is taller than 78%.
• For a woman, 6 ft 2 in is above the 99th 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 6 ft 2 tall for a man?

6 ft 2 in is taller than 98% of men worldwide, 93% of men in the United States and 89% of men in Norway. That is tall by any country's standard.

Is 6 ft 2 tall for a woman?

For women, 6 ft 2 in is above the 99th percentile worldwide and above the 99th percentile in the United States. The global mean for women is 159.0 cm (5 ft 3 in), so 6 ft 2 in is 29.0 cm above it.

What is 6 ft 2 in cm?

6 ft 2 in is 188.0 cm, which rounds to 188 cm. One inch is exactly 2.54 cm, so 74 inches is 187.96 cm.

How rare is 6 ft 2?

Worldwide, about 1 in 59 men are at least 6 ft 2 in, and under 1 in 10,000 women. In Norway it is 1 in 9 men, in the United States 1 in 14.