Is 169 cm tall?
169 cm (5 ft 7 in) is taller than 40% of men worldwide, 14% of American men and 6% of Norwegian men. For women it is the 91st percentile worldwide.
Percentile
40%
of men worldwide are shorter than 169 cm
169 cm = 5 ft 7 in
169 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 60 would be taller than 169 cm and 40 shorter.
- Across the 186 countries in our data, 169 cm stands out most in the Netherlands, where it is taller than 3% of men, and least in Timor-Leste, where it is taller than 87%.
- For a woman, 169 cm is the 91st 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 169 cm tall for a man?
- 169 cm is taller than 40% of men worldwide, 14% of men in the United States and 6% of men in Norway. That is about average.
- Is 169 cm tall for a woman?
- For women, 169 cm is the 91st percentile worldwide and the 78th percentile in the United States. The global mean for women is 159.0 cm (5 ft 3 in), so 169 cm is 10.0 cm above it.
- What is 169 cm in feet?
- 169 cm is 66.5 inches, which is 5 ft 7 in to the nearest inch. One foot is 30.48 cm and one inch is 2.54 cm.
- How rare is 169 cm?
- Worldwide, about 1 in 2 men are at most 169 cm, and 1 in 11 women. In Norway it is 1 in 18 men, in the United States 1 in 7.
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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