Is 176 cm tall?
176 cm (5 ft 9 in) is taller than 73% of men worldwide, 44% of American men and 29% of Norwegian men. For women it is the 99th percentile worldwide.
Percentile
73%
of men worldwide are shorter than 176 cm
176 cm = 5 ft 9 in
176 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 27 would be taller than 176 cm and 73 shorter.
- Across the 186 countries in our data, 176 cm stands out most in Timor-Leste, where it is taller than 98% of men, and least in the Netherlands, where it is taller than 18%.
- For a woman, 176 cm is the 99th 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 176 cm tall for a man?
- 176 cm is taller than 73% of men worldwide, 44% of men in the United States and 29% of men in Norway. Taller than most, but not unusual.
- Is 176 cm tall for a woman?
- For women, 176 cm is the 99th percentile worldwide and the 96th percentile in the United States. The global mean for women is 159.0 cm (5 ft 3 in), so 176 cm is 17.0 cm above it.
- What is 176 cm in feet?
- 176 cm is 69.3 inches, which is 5 ft 9 in to the nearest inch. One foot is 30.48 cm and one inch is 2.54 cm.
- How rare is 176 cm?
- Worldwide, about 1 in 4 men are at least 176 cm, and 1 in 85 women. In Norway it is 1 in 3 men, in the United States 1 in 2.
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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