Is 4 ft 11 tall?

4 ft 11 in by group

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, you would most likely be the shortest. About 1 in 243 men are 4 ft 11 in or under.
• Across the 186 countries in our data, 4 ft 11 in stands out most in Denmark, where it is taller than under 1% of men, and least in Timor-Leste, where it is taller than 11%.
• For a woman, 4 ft 11 in is the 11th 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 4 ft 11 tall for a man?

4 ft 11 in is taller than under 1% of men worldwide, under 1% of men in the United States and under 1% of men in Norway. Short in most countries, though less so in Timor-Leste, where it is taller than 11% of men.

Is 4 ft 11 tall for a woman?

For women, 4 ft 11 in is the 11th percentile worldwide and the 3rd percentile in the United States. The global mean for women is 159.0 cm (5 ft 3 in), so 4 ft 11 in is 9.1 cm below it.

What is 4 ft 11 in cm?

4 ft 11 in is 149.9 cm, which rounds to 150 cm. One inch is exactly 2.54 cm, so 59 inches is 149.86 cm.

How rare is 4 ft 11?

Worldwide, about 1 in 243 men are at most 4 ft 11 in, and 1 in 9 women. In Norway it is under 1 in 10,000 men, in the United States 1 in 7,110.