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Is 154 cm tall?

154 cm (5 ft 1 in) is taller than 2% of men worldwide, under 1% of American men and under 1% of Norwegian men. For women it is the 25th percentile worldwide.

Percentile
2%
of men worldwide are shorter than 154 cm
154 cm = 5 ft 1 in

154 cm by group

Men

Share of men shorter than 154 cm, by country
GroupMeanShorter than you1 in X
World171.0 cm2%1 in 60
India164.9 cm6%1 in 18
China171.8 cm<1%1 in 226
United States177.1 cm<1%1 in 966
Indonesia163.6 cm7%1 in 14
Pakistan166.9 cm5%1 in 19
Nigeria165.9 cm3%1 in 30
Brazil173.6 cm<1%1 in 308
Bangladesh163.8 cm11%1 in 9
Russia176.5 cm<1%1 in 1,125
Mexico169.0 cm1%1 in 73
Norway179.7 cm<1%under 1 in 10,000

Women

Share of women shorter than 154 cm, by country
GroupMeanShorter than you1 in X
World159.0 cm25%1 in 4
India152.6 cm59%1 in 2
China159.7 cm18%1 in 6
United States163.5 cm9%1 in 11
Indonesia152.8 cm58%1 in 2
Pakistan153.8 cm51%1 in 2
Nigeria156.3 cm35%1 in 3
Brazil160.9 cm14%1 in 7
Bangladesh150.8 cm67%1 in 3
Russia165.3 cm4%1 in 23
Mexico156.8 cm33%1 in 3
Norway165.6 cm3%1 in 33

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 98 would be taller than 154 cm and 2 shorter.
  • Across the 186 countries in our data, 154 cm stands out most in Denmark, where it is taller than under 1% of men, and least in Timor-Leste, where it is taller than 23%.
  • For a woman, 154 cm is the 25th 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 154 cm tall for a man?
154 cm is taller than 2% 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 23% of men.
Is 154 cm tall for a woman?
For women, 154 cm is the 25th percentile worldwide and the 9th percentile in the United States. The global mean for women is 159.0 cm (5 ft 3 in), so 154 cm is 5.0 cm below it.
What is 154 cm in feet?
154 cm is 60.6 inches, which is 5 ft 1 in to the nearest inch. One foot is 30.48 cm and one inch is 2.54 cm.
How rare is 154 cm?
Worldwide, about 1 in 60 men are at most 154 cm, and 1 in 4 women. In Norway it is under 1 in 10,000 men, in the United States 1 in 966.

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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