Is 178 cm tall?
178 cm (5 ft 10 in) is taller than 81% of men worldwide, 55% of American men and 40% of Norwegian men. For women it is the 99th percentile worldwide.
Percentile
81%
of men worldwide are shorter than 178 cm
178 cm = 5 ft 10 in
178 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 19 would be taller than 178 cm and 81 shorter.
- Across the 186 countries in our data, 178 cm stands out most in the Philippines, where it is taller than 99% of men, and least in the Netherlands, where it is taller than 26%.
- For a woman, 178 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 178 cm tall for a man?
- 178 cm is taller than 81% of men worldwide, 55% of men in the United States and 40% of men in Norway. Taller than most, but not unusual.
- Is 178 cm tall for a woman?
- For women, 178 cm is the 99th percentile worldwide and the 98th percentile in the United States. The global mean for women is 159.0 cm (5 ft 3 in), so 178 cm is 19.0 cm above it.
- What is 178 cm in feet?
- 178 cm is 70.1 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 178 cm?
- Worldwide, about 1 in 5 men are at least 178 cm, and 1 in 177 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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