Is 177 cm tall?
177 cm (5 ft 10 in) is taller than 77% of men worldwide, 49% of American men and 34% of Norwegian men. For women it is the 99th percentile worldwide.
Percentile
77%
of men worldwide are shorter than 177 cm
177 cm = 5 ft 10 in
177 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 23 would be taller than 177 cm and 77 shorter.
- Across the 186 countries in our data, 177 cm stands out most in the Philippines, where it is taller than 98% of men, and least in the Netherlands, where it is taller than 22%.
- For a woman, 177 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 177 cm tall for a man?
- 177 cm is taller than 77% of men worldwide, 49% of men in the United States and 34% of men in Norway. Taller than most, but not unusual.
- Is 177 cm tall for a woman?
- For women, 177 cm is the 99th percentile worldwide and the 97th percentile in the United States. The global mean for women is 159.0 cm (5 ft 3 in), so 177 cm is 18.0 cm above it.
- What is 177 cm in feet?
- 177 cm is 69.7 inches, which is 5 ft 10 in to the nearest inch. One foot is 30.48 cm and one inch is 2.54 cm.
- How rare is 177 cm?
- Worldwide, about 1 in 4 men are at least 177 cm, and 1 in 122 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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