Is 163 cm tall?
163 cm (5 ft 4 in) is taller than 16% of men worldwide, 3% of American men and 1% of Norwegian men. For women it is the 70th percentile worldwide.
Percentile
16%
of men worldwide are shorter than 163 cm
163 cm = 5 ft 4 in
163 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 84 would be taller than 163 cm and 16 shorter.
- Across the 186 countries in our data, 163 cm 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 66%.
- For a woman, 163 cm is the 70th 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 163 cm tall for a man?
- 163 cm is taller than 16% of men worldwide, 3% of men in the United States and 1% of men in Norway. Below average in most countries.
- Is 163 cm tall for a woman?
- For women, 163 cm is the 70th percentile worldwide and the 47th percentile in the United States. The global mean for women is 159.0 cm (5 ft 3 in), so 163 cm is 4.0 cm above it.
- What is 163 cm in feet?
- 163 cm is 64.2 inches, which is 5 ft 4 in to the nearest inch. One foot is 30.48 cm and one inch is 2.54 cm.
- How rare is 163 cm?
- Worldwide, about 1 in 6 men are at most 163 cm, and 1 in 3 women. In Norway it is 1 in 158 men, in the United States 1 in 33.
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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