Is 173 cm tall?
173 cm (5 ft 8 in) is taller than 60% of men worldwide, 29% of American men and 16% of Norwegian men. For women it is the 97th percentile worldwide.
Percentile
60%
of men worldwide are shorter than 173 cm
173 cm = 5 ft 8 in
173 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 40 would be taller than 173 cm and 60 shorter.
- Across the 186 countries in our data, 173 cm stands out most in Timor-Leste, where it is taller than 95% of men, and least in the Netherlands, where it is taller than 9%.
- For a woman, 173 cm is the 97th 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 173 cm tall for a man?
- 173 cm is taller than 60% of men worldwide, 29% of men in the United States and 16% of men in Norway. That is about average.
- Is 173 cm tall for a woman?
- For women, 173 cm is the 97th percentile worldwide and the 91st percentile in the United States. The global mean for women is 159.0 cm (5 ft 3 in), so 173 cm is 14.0 cm above it.
- What is 173 cm in feet?
- 173 cm is 68.1 inches, which is 5 ft 8 in to the nearest inch. One foot is 30.48 cm and one inch is 2.54 cm.
- How rare is 173 cm?
- Worldwide, about 1 in 2 men are at least 173 cm, and 1 in 32 women. In Norway it is 1 in 6 men, in the United States 1 in 3.
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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