Is 165 cm tall?
165 cm (5 ft 5 in) is taller than 23% of men worldwide, 5% of American men and 1% of Norwegian men. For women it is the 79th percentile worldwide.
Percentile
23%
of men worldwide are shorter than 165 cm
165 cm = 5 ft 5 in
165 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 77 would be taller than 165 cm and 23 shorter.
- Across the 186 countries in our data, 165 cm stands out most in the Netherlands, where it is taller than 1% of men, and least in Timor-Leste, where it is taller than 74%.
- For a woman, 165 cm is the 79th 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 165 cm tall for a man?
- 165 cm is taller than 23% of men worldwide, 5% of men in the United States and 1% of men in Norway. Below average in most countries.
- Is 165 cm tall for a woman?
- For women, 165 cm is the 79th percentile worldwide and the 58th percentile in the United States. The global mean for women is 159.0 cm (5 ft 3 in), so 165 cm is 6.0 cm above it.
- What is 165 cm in feet?
- 165 cm is 65.0 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 165 cm?
- Worldwide, about 1 in 4 men are at most 165 cm, and 1 in 5 women. In Norway it is 1 in 71 men, in the United States 1 in 19.
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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