Is 188 cm tall?
188 cm (6 ft 2 in) is taller than 98% of men worldwide, 93% of American men and 89% of Norwegian men. For women it is above the 99th percentile worldwide.
188 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 2 would be taller than 188 cm and 98 shorter.
- Across the 186 countries in our data, 188 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 78%.
- For a woman, 188 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 188 cm tall for a man?
- 188 cm is taller than 98% of men worldwide, 93% of men in the United States and 89% of men in Norway. That is tall by any country's standard.
- Is 188 cm tall for a woman?
- For women, 188 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 188 cm is 29.0 cm above it.
- What is 188 cm in feet?
- 188 cm is 74.0 inches, which is 6 ft 2 in to the nearest inch. One foot is 30.48 cm and one inch is 2.54 cm.
- How rare is 188 cm?
- Worldwide, about 1 in 60 men are at least 188 cm, and under 1 in 10,000 women. In Norway it is 1 in 9 men, in the United States 1 in 14.
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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