Is 185 cm tall?
185 cm (6 ft 1 in) is taller than 96% of men worldwide, 85% of American men and 79% of Norwegian men. For women it is above the 99th percentile worldwide.
185 cm by group
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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 4 would be taller than 185 cm and 96 shorter.
- Across the 186 countries in our data, 185 cm stands out most in the Philippines, where it is taller than over 99% of men, and least in the Netherlands, where it is taller than 64%.
- For a woman, 185 cm is above 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 185 cm tall for a man?
- 185 cm is taller than 96% of men worldwide, 85% of men in the United States and 79% of men in Norway. That counts as tall in most countries.
- Is 185 cm tall for a woman?
- For women, 185 cm is above the 99th percentile worldwide and above the 99th percentile in the United States. The global mean for women is 159.0 cm (5 ft 3 in), so 185 cm is 26.0 cm above it.
- What is 185 cm in feet?
- 185 cm is 72.8 inches, which is 6 ft 1 in to the nearest inch. One foot is 30.48 cm and one inch is 2.54 cm.
- How rare is 185 cm?
- Worldwide, about 1 in 25 men are at least 185 cm, and 1 in 3,795 women. In Norway it is 1 in 5 men, in the United States 1 in 7.
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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