Is 186 cm tall?
186 cm (6 ft 1 in) is taller than 97% of men worldwide, 88% of American men and 83% of Norwegian men. For women it is above the 99th percentile worldwide.
186 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 3 would be taller than 186 cm and 97 shorter.
- Across the 186 countries in our data, 186 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 69%.
- For a woman, 186 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 186 cm tall for a man?
- 186 cm is taller than 97% of men worldwide, 88% of men in the United States and 83% of men in Norway. That counts as tall in most countries.
- Is 186 cm tall for a woman?
- For women, 186 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 186 cm is 27.0 cm above it.
- What is 186 cm in feet?
- 186 cm is 73.2 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 186 cm?
- Worldwide, about 1 in 33 men are at least 186 cm, and 1 in 6,284 women. In Norway it is 1 in 6 men, in the United States 1 in 8.
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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