Is 164 cm tall?
164 cm (5 ft 5 in) is taller than 19% of men worldwide, 4% of American men and 1% of Norwegian men. For women it is the 75th percentile worldwide.
Percentile
19%
of men worldwide are shorter than 164 cm
164 cm = 5 ft 5 in
164 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 81 would be taller than 164 cm and 19 shorter.
- Across the 186 countries in our data, 164 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 70%.
- For a woman, 164 cm is the 75th 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 164 cm tall for a man?
- 164 cm is taller than 19% of men worldwide, 4% of men in the United States and 1% of men in Norway. Below average in most countries.
- Is 164 cm tall for a woman?
- For women, 164 cm is the 75th percentile worldwide and the 53rd percentile in the United States. The global mean for women is 159.0 cm (5 ft 3 in), so 164 cm is 5.0 cm above it.
- What is 164 cm in feet?
- 164 cm is 64.6 inches, which is 5 ft 5 in to the nearest inch. One foot is 30.48 cm and one inch is 2.54 cm.
- How rare is 164 cm?
- Worldwide, about 1 in 5 men are at most 164 cm, and 1 in 4 women. In Norway it is 1 in 105 men, in the United States 1 in 25.
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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