Is 171 cm tall?
171 cm (5 ft 7 in) is taller than 50% of men worldwide, 21% of American men and 10% of Norwegian men. For women it is the 95th percentile worldwide.
Percentile
50%
of men worldwide are shorter than 171 cm
171 cm = 5 ft 7 in
171 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 50 would be taller than 171 cm and 50 shorter.
- Across the 186 countries in our data, 171 cm stands out most in Timor-Leste, where it is taller than 92% of men, and least in the Netherlands, where it is taller than 5%.
- For a woman, 171 cm is the 95th 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 171 cm tall for a man?
- 171 cm is taller than 50% of men worldwide, 21% of men in the United States and 10% of men in Norway. That is about average.
- Is 171 cm tall for a woman?
- For women, 171 cm is the 95th percentile worldwide and the 86th percentile in the United States. The global mean for women is 159.0 cm (5 ft 3 in), so 171 cm is 12.0 cm above it.
- What is 171 cm in feet?
- 171 cm is 67.3 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 171 cm?
- Worldwide, about 1 in 2 men are at least 171 cm, and 1 in 18 women. In Norway it is 1 in 10 men, in the United States 1 in 5.
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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